. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2016 Jun;57(2):200–222. doi: 10.1177/0022146516645165

Table 1.

Weighted Means/Proportions, by Race-ethnicity and Gender; Health and Retirement Study, Baseline.

Variable	WM	WW	BM	BW	MM	MW
Self-rated health	2.43	2.43	2.96^*	3.13^*^†	3.04^*	3.28^*^†
	(1.16)	(1.15)	(1.22)	(1.14)	(1.22)	(1.14)
	1–5	1–5	1–5	1–5	1–5	1–5
Years of education	13.20	12.84^*^†	11.43^*	11.85^*^†	8.30^*	7.95^*^†
	(2.80)	(2.40)	(3.32)	(2.91)	(4.64)	(4.58)
	0–17	0–17	0–17	0–17	0–17	0–17
Income (ln)	10.64	10.42^*^†	9.91^*	9.51^*^†	9.32^*	9.00^*^†
	(1.28)	(1.42)	(1.81)	(1.89)	(2.37)	(2.49)
	0–14.22	0–14.16	0–12.78	0–12.83	0–13.53	0–12.21
Age	54.98	54.97	54.98	54.94	54.50^*	54.46^*
	(2.99)	(3.04)	(2.92)	(2.99)	(2.85)	(2.79)
	51–61	51–61	51–61	51–61	51–61	51–61
Study cohort
HRS	.67	.73^*^†	.69	.70	.60^*	.64
War baby	.15	.12^*^†	.12	.12	.12	.09^*
Early baby boomer	.18	.15^*^†	.18	.18	.28^*	.27^*
Immigrant	.04	.04	.07^*	.07^*	.46^*	.45^*
Proportion of waves missing	.21	.17^*^†	.27^*	.22	.21	.18
	(.290)	(.274)	(.305)	(.289)	(.268)	(.278)
	0–.90	0–.90	0–.90	0–.90	0–.90	0–.90
Died	.16	.12^*^†	.23^*	.20^*^†	.14	.09^*^†
N	4,967	4,832	997	1,348	426	406

Note: WM, WW, BM, BW, HM, and HW refer to white men, white women, black men, black women, Mexican men, and Mexican women, respectively. Standard deviations are reported in parentheses. Ranges for continuous variables are reported below the standard deviations.

p < .05 for comparison of racial-ethnic/gender group to white men,

^†

p < .05 for comparison between the men and women within racial-ethnic groups.