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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2009 Oct;60(10):1336–1341. doi: 10.1176/ps.2009.60.10.1336

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of 5,386 respondents to the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, by race-ethnicitya

Characteristic Non-Hispanic white
African American
Hispanic or Latino
N % N % N %
Age (M±SD) 47.0±18.1 41.4±16.8 37.8±15.6
Gender
 Male 2,070 77 297 11 322 12
 Female 2,071 75 370 13 308 11
Region
 Northeast 856 83 100 10 72 7
 Midwest 1,118 85 125 10 66 5
 South 1,383 71 360 18 216 11
 West 784 69 81 7 276 24
Educational attainment
 <12 years 547 60 149 16 219 24
 12 years 1,321 74 249 14 223 12
 13–15 years 1,190 80 182 12 120 8
 ≥16 years 1,083 88 87 7 69 6
Income
 Low 677 59 258 22 221 19
 Low average 606 73 122 15 99 12
 High average 1,612 82 176 9 183 9
 High 1,246 84 111 8 127 9
Marital status
 Married or cohabiting 2,484 81 239 8 336 11
 Divorced, separated, or widowed 857 76 167 15 106 9
 Never married 800 64 259 21 188 15
Employment status
 Employed 2,678 77 404 12 419 12
 Unemployed 210 74 8 6 58 20
 Not in the labor force 1,241 76 236 15 152 9
Religious affiliation
 Protestant 2,266 77 523 18 141 5
 Catholic 930 68 40 3 399 29
 None identified 636 84 58 8 63 8
a

p<.05 for all associations between race-ethnicity and sociodemographic characteristics. Ns vary among sociodemographic characteristics because of weighting and exclusion-inclusion criteria.