Table 2. Means and Standard Deviations of Marriage Market Characteristics of Newlyweds by Race/Ethnicity and Gender.

	White		Black		Hispanic		Asian
	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
A. Female newlyweds
Relative group size	0.75	0.18	0.25	0.17	0.30	0.22	0.12	0.13
Educational similarities	0.30	0.15	0.28	0.19	0.30	0.18	0.37	0.22
Sex ratio	1.27	0.19	0.90	1.40	1.52	1.04	1.41	0.87
Share of foreign-born	0.04	0.05	0.09	0.12	0.53	0.20	0.65	0.18
Marriageable index	0.91	0.15	0.50	0.21	1.14	0.72	0.88	0.65
Diversity index	0.35	0.18	0.49	0.13	0.50	0.15	0.50	0.16
Simpson	-0.69	0.31	-0.90	0.22	-0.93	0.25	-0.96	0.26
N	31,642		3,321		6,481		3,086
Sample shares %	68%		9%		16%		7%
B. Male
Relative group size	0.74	0.19	0.24	0.17	0.30	0.22	0.13	0.13
Educational similarities	0.33	0.13	0.31	0.16	0.31	0.16	0.38	0.20
Sex ratio	0.81	0.11	1.27	0.43	0.76	0.50	0.86	0.45
Share of foreign-born	0.04	0.04	0.08	0.11	0.45	0.19	0.65	0.17
Marriageable index	0.57	0.11	0.79	0.35	0.46	0.34	0.53	0.28
Diversity index	0.36	0.18	0.48	0.14	0.50	0.15	0.52	0.15
Simpson	-0.70	0.30	-0.89	0.23	-0.93	0.25	-0.97	0.25
N	29,643		3,317		6,344		2,350
Sample shares %	67%		10%		17%		6%

Sources: 2005, 2008- 2011 American Community Surveys

Notes: Percentages and standard deviations are weighted; counts are not weighted.