Table 1.
Baseline Characteristics of Veterans and Non-Veterans in the Women’s Health Initiative Overall and in the Observational Study
| Overall a | Observational Study a | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Veterans | Veterans | Non-Veterans | Veterans | |||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Total | 1,41,802 | 100.0 | 3,719 | 100.0 | 85,609 | 100.0 | 2,302 | 100.0 |
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| <50–59 | 46,367 | 32.7 | 785 | 21.1 | 27,308 | 31.9 | 455 | 19.8 |
| 60–69 | 64,643 | 45.6 | 1,081 | 29.1 | 38,131 | 44.5 | 627 | 27.2 |
| 70+ | 30,792 | 21.7 | 1,853 | 49.8 | 20,170 | 23.6 | 1,220 | 53.0 |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 31,594 | 22.3 | 579 | 15.6 | 19,020 | 22.2 | 359 | 15.6 |
| South | 36,616 | 25.8 | 1,011 | 27.2 | 22,392 | 26.2 | 635 | 27.6 |
| Midwest | 31,842 | 22.5 | 666 | 17.9 | 19,342 | 22.6 | 407 | 17.7 |
| West | 41,750 | 29.4 | 1,463 | 39.3 | 24,855 | 29.0 | 901 | 39.1 |
| Race | ||||||||
| American Indian/Alaskan Native | 606 | 0.4 | 25 | 0.7 | 361 | 0.4 | 19 | 0.8 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 3,986 | 2.8 | 46 | 1.2 | 2,562 | 3.0 | 29 | 1.3 |
| Black/African American | 12,874 | 9.1 | 263 | 7.1 | 6,989 | 8.2 | 159 | 6.9 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5,671 | 4.0 | 86 | 2.3 | 3,251 | 3.8 | 56 | 2.4 |
| White | 1,16,617 | 82.2 | 3,239 | 87.1 | 71,230 | 83.2 | 2,004 | 87.1 |
| Other | 1,675 | 1.2 | 47 | 1.3 | 975 | 1.1 | 26 | 1.1 |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| Never married | 6,063 | 4.3 | 381 | 10.2 | 3,869 | 4.5 | 259 | 11.3 |
| Divorced/separated | 22,709 | 16.0 | 686 | 18.4 | 13,456 | 15.7 | 422 | 18.3 |
| Widowed | 24,358 | 17.2 | 835 | 22.5 | 14,756 | 17.2 | 527 | 22.9 |
| Married/marriage-like | 88,189 | 62.2 | 1,807 | 48.6 | 53,244 | 62.2 | 1,089 | 47.3 |
| Education | ||||||||
| Less than high school | 7,483 | 5.3 | 64 | 1.7 | 4,369 | 5.1 | 42 | 1.8 |
| High school diploma/GED | 24,225 | 17.1 | 379 | 10.2 | 13,814 | 16.1 | 232 | 10.1 |
| Some college or vocational/training school | 53,197 | 37.5 | 1,522 | 40.9 | 31,022 | 36.2 | 877 | 38.1 |
| College graduate or more | 55,975 | 39.5 | 1,740 | 46.8 | 35,822 | 41.8 | 1,142 | 49.6 |
| Occupation | ||||||||
| Managerial/Professional | 58,280 | 41.1 | 1,828 | 49.2 | 36,219 | 42.3 | 1,175 | 51.0 |
| Technical/Sales/Administration | 41,346 | 29.2 | 939 | 25.2 | 24,022 | 28.1 | 544 | 23.6 |
| Service/Labor | 24,778 | 17.5 | 551 | 14.8 | 14,524 | 17.0 | 332 | 14.4 |
| Homemaker | 14,365 | 10.1 | 313 | 8.4 | 9,003 | 10.5 | 196 | 8.5 |
| Income | ||||||||
| <20,000 | 21,823 | 15.4 | 629 | 16.9 | 12,494 | 14.6 | 399 | 17.3 |
| 20,000 to <50,000 | 58,778 | 41.5 | 1,728 | 46.5 | 34,300 | 40.1 | 1,055 | 45.8 |
| 50,000 to <75,000 | 26,489 | 18.7 | 630 | 16.9 | 16,185 | 18.9 | 360 | 15.6 |
| 75,000+ | 25,310 | 17.8 | 527 | 14.2 | 16,496 | 19.3 | 351 | 15.2 |
Note: GED = Graduate Education Development. a Numbers may not add to totals and percents may not add to 100 due to missing data.