Table 1.
Weighted means, standard deviations, and proportions of selected sociodemographic characteristics for the total sample and by race/ethnic subgroup.
| Characteristic | Race/ethnic group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total sample N = 4,988 |
African American (n = 3,570) |
Afro-Caribbean (n = 1,418) |
Design-based F test or χ2 |
p-valuea | |
| Age, mean (SD) | 42.24 (16.22) | 42.33 (18.17) | 40.84 (35.45) | (1, 54) = 1.69 | 0.198 |
| Range | 18–94 | 18–93 | 18–94 | ||
| Social desirability, mean (SD) | 2.01 (1.78) | 2.03 (2.01) | 1.86 (4.71) | (1, 54) = 4.32 | 0.042 |
| Range | 0–10 | 0–10 | 0–10 | ||
| Gender | (1, 54) = 4.95 | 0.030 | |||
| Male | 3,163 (55.57) | 2,299 (55.97) | 864 (49.02) | ||
| Female | 1,825 (44.43) | 1,271 (44.03) | 554 (50.98) | ||
| Marital status, n (%) | (1.69, 91.03) = | 0.001 | |||
| Married/cohabitating | 1,828 (42.21) | 1,222 (41.65) | 606 (51.13) | 8.56 | |
| D/S/W | 1,497 (26.32) | 1,164 (26.77) | 333 (18.99) | ||
| Never married | 1,655 (31.48) | 1,176 (31.57) | 479 (29.88) | ||
| Education, n (%) | (1.98, 106.96) | 0.003 | |||
| 0–11 years | 1,182 (23.9) | 920 (24.19) | 262 (19.20) | = 6.21 | |
| 12 years | 1,778 (37.39) | 1,362 (37.86) | 416 (29.77) | ||
| 13–15 years | 1,193 (24.09) | 809 (23.83) | 384 (28.33) | ||
| ≥16 years | 835 (14.62) | 479 (14.12) | 356 (22.69) | ||
| Household income ($), n (%) | (2.63, 142.16) | 0.003 | |||
| 0–14,999 | 1,282 (24.06) | 1,054 (24.70) | 228 (13.81) | = 5.31 | |
| 15,000–34,999 | 1,795 (33.83) | 1,282 (33.88) | 513 (33.11) | ||
| 35,000–74,999 | 1,459 (31.59) | 972 (31.3) | 487 (36.42) | ||
| 75,000 and over | 452 (10.51) | 262 (10.13) | 190 (16.66) | ||
| Work status, n (%) | (1, 54) = 26.83 | 0.000 | |||
| Employed | 3,386 (67.38) | 2,334 (66.83) | 1052 (76.18) | ||
| Unemployed | 1,593 (32.62) | 1,227 (33.17) | 366 (23.82) | ||
| Nativity status | (1, 54) = | 0.000 | |||
| U.S.-born | 3,830 (93.72) | 3,464 (97.69) | 366 (30.15) | 1108.93 | |
| Foreign-born | 1,115 (6.28) | 64 (2.31) | 1051 (69.85) | ||
| Years in the US | (1, 54) = 76.42 | 0.000 | |||
| 0 to less than 5 years | 135 (1.27) | 19 (.77) | 116 (9.30) | ||
| 5 or more years | 4,769 (98.73) | 3,474 (99.23) | 1295 (90.70) | ||
Note. D/S/W= Divorced/separated/or widowed.
a
Rao-Scott statistics for the Pearson chi-square test for contingency tables were computed for categorical variables and design-based adjusted Wald-tests of differences were computed for continuous variables for race/ethnicity.