Table 2.

Descriptive statistics on selected sociodemographic variables for all respondents and by race/ethnicity. Standard deviations are noted in parenthesis.

Variables	Total Sample	NH Whites	NH Blacks	Hispanics
Self-Rated Health
Excellent	22.99	24.18	18.47	19.81
Very Good	36.91	38.85	33.46	26.03
Good	26.81	25.12	30.98	34.53
Fair	9.95	8.66	13.82	14.91
Poor	3.34	3.19	3.27	4.72
Pollution (decile)	5.56	5.48	6.53	4.77
	(2.85)	(2.81)	(2.68)	(3.03)
Informal Social Participation	−0.0067	0.0282	−0.0723	−0.1969
	(0.668)	(0.659)	(0.693)	(0.663)
Faith-based Social Capital	−0.0622	−0.0606	0.0821	−0.2885
	(0.748)	(0.761)	(0.717)	(0.620)
General Social Trust	0.0172	0.1735	−0.4862	−0.5277
	(0.695)	(0.603)	(0.708)	(0.751)
Organized Social Participation	−0.0009	0.0337	0.0483	−0.3587
	(0.993)	(0.989)	(1.069)	(0.825)
Political Activism	1.04	1.06	1.16	0.73
	(1.32)	(1.29)	(1.49)	(1.28)
Formal Group Involvement	2.96	3.01	3.40	1.96
	(2.65)	(2.51)	(3.18)	(2.59)
Electoral Politics	3.01	3.20	2.81	1.71
	(1.35)	(1.27)	(1.18)	(1.40)
Age	45.09	46.66	42.17	36.46
	(17.31)	(17.40)	(16.63)	(14.15)
Race/Ethnicity
NH Whites	76.88
NH Blacks	13.78
Hispanics	9.34
Sex
Male	47.48	47.49	45.74	49.94
Female	52.52	52.51	54.26	50.06
Region
Northeast	15.22	17.13	9.25	8.24
Midwest	31.48	33.59	31.35	14.30
South	30.18	28.50	45.82	20.98
West	23.12	20.78	13.58	56.48
Marital Status
Never Married	23.26	20.08	34.95	32.21
Widowed	6.38	6.70	7.11	2.75
Divorced/Separated	12.87	11.91	18.68	12.23
Currently Married	57.49	61.32	39.27	52.81
Education
Some High School	12.66	8.79	14.43	41.88
High School Graduate	28.11	27.86	30.48	26.72
Some College	23.19	23.36	27.87	14.89
Associate’s Degree	11.07	11.64	11.10	6.31
College Graduate	12.79	14.58	7.94	5.26
Graduate School	12.18	13.77	8.18	4.94
N	26,387	20,362	3512	2513