Table 1.
White (US) | Mexico | Europe | Russia | Africa | Middle East | India | Asia | Southeast Asia | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Heart disease | 12.9 | 5.7 | 11.48** | 10.5** | 3.7** | 6.9** | 4.3** | 5.2** | 6.0 |
Poor self-rated health | 12.1 | 15.3 | 10.4** | 17.3** | 7.2** | 12.1** | 6.2** | 9.4** | 11.0** |
Female | 51.3 | 47.2 | 53.6** | 53.3** | 44.8** | 45.7** | 43.9** | 57.5** | 55.0** |
Average age | 48.61 | 42.89 [15.50] | 51.35** [18.48] | 48.20** [19.50] | 39.88** [13.29] | 44.73** [17.07] | 38.84** [13.79] | 46.71** [18.15] | 46.39** [15.62] |
Less than HS | 11.1 | 55.1 | 10.8** | 10.5** | 9.1** | 13.6** | 7.3** | 11.1** | 13.3** |
High school | 28.3 | 22.9 | 24.8** | 13.7** | 18.1** | 20.1** | 9.8 | 17.4** | 17.5** |
College | 60.6 | 22.0 | 64.5** | 75.8** | 72.8** | 66.2** | 82.9** | 71.6** | 69.2** |
Low income | 30.6 | 55.9 | 30.7** | 38.9** | 40.0** | 41.8** | 24.3** | 34.7** | 25.3** |
Middle income | 33.5 | 32.2 | 30.0** | 30.3 | 33.3** | 26.5 | 28.4* | 28.0 | 34.4** |
High income | 35.9 | 11.9 | 39.4** | 30.7** | 26.7** | 31.6** | 47.3** | 37.3** | 40.3** |
Up to four years | – | 9.7 | 6.4** | 11.6 | 19.3** | 15.6** | 23.7** | 14.8** | 8.7 |
Five to nine years | – | 16.2 | 8.3** | 19.3** | 24.1** | 13.6* | 21.0** | 13.3** | 10.6** |
Ten to fourteen years | – | 16.6 | 9.0** | 24.4** | 19.8** | 13.2** | 18.2 | 12.7** | 11.9** |
Fifteen or more years | – | 57.4 | 76.3** | 44.7** | 36.8** | 57.5 | 37.1** | 59.2** | 68.8** |
Observations | 183,795 | 25,135 | 4091 | 706 | 1744 | 874 | 2464 | 3366 | 4516 |
p ≤ 0.05
p ≤ 0.10.
Notes: The large sample size of U.S.-born whites produces uniformly significant results, rendering significance tests uninformative.