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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2016 Aug 16;51(10):1349–1359. doi: 10.1007/s00127-016-1276-6

Table 3.

Joint disparity and component disparities (with standard errors) for average outcomes in 2006/2007 among the NLSY97 cohort

Joint
Disparity
(μ11− μ00)		 Referent
Race/ethnicity
Disparity
(μ10− μ00)		 Referent
SES Disparity
(μ01− μ00)		 Excess
Intersectional
Disparitya
(μ11− μ00)
− (μ10− μ00)
− (μ01− μ00)
Unemployment, %
  Absolute difference 13.4 (1.9) 5.9 (2.3) 2.4 (1.1) 5.1 (2.9)
  % Attributable 44 (17) 18 (8) 38 (21)
Hourly wage, log
  Absolute difference −0.26 (.03) −0.14 (0.04) −0.12 (0.02) 0.00 (0.05)
  % Attributable 53 (12) 45 (7) 1 (15)
Incarceration, %
  Absolute difference 11.3 (1.5) 3.3 (1.8) 6.4 (1.0) 1.6 (2.4)
  % Attributable 35 (14) 55 (9) 11 (19)
a

The excess intersectional disparity equals the joint disparity minus the referent race/ethnicity disparity minus the referent SES disparity