Table 1.

Socio-economic characteristics of respondents in HRS 2006 and RPS 2006

		HRS 2006		RPS 2006
		unweigthed	weigthed	unweigthed	weigthed
Gender	Female	57.3%	56.8%	55.8%	57.2%
	Male	42.7%	43.2%	44.2%	42.8%
Race	White	83.5%	89.3%	87.6%	83.3%
	Non-white	16.5%	10.7%	12.4%	16.7%
Age	61 – 70	35.8%	33.7%	39.3%	35.9%
	71 – 80	40.3%	41.6%	46.9%	47.9%
	81 – 90	20.4%	22.0%	12.9%	15.1%
	>90	3.5%	2.7%	0.9%	1.1%
Education	Less than HS	31.5%	28.3%	12.9%	26.1%
	High school	32.6%	33.4%	41.5%	36.5%
	More than HS	36.0%	38.4%	45.6%	37.5%
Income	<$20K	33.2%	31.2%	23.4%	28.9%
	$20K – $60K	46.2%	46.9%	58.2%	52.6%
	>$60K	20.6%	21.9%	18.4%	18.5%
SRHS	excellent	8.5%	9.1%	6.1%	5.6%
	very good	26.3%	27.5%	32.2%	27.8%
	good	31.6%	32.4%	39.5%	41.8%
	fair	23.3%	22.2%	18.1%	19.8%
	poor	10.3%	8.8%	4.0%	4.9%
Number of observations		11399		1666