Table 3.

Time-varying characteristics, by self-rated health

Time-varying characteristics	Self-rated health
	Remain good/very good/excellent	Onset of fair/poor
Age (prior wave), mean (SD)	62.09 (9.85)	65.31 (12.18)
Family income ($) (running average), mean (SD)a	87,860 (97,661)	58,328 (67,499)
Family size (running average), mean (SD)	2.52 (1.15)	2.43 (1.28)
Married (running percent of person-periods), %	79.05	69.17
Female-headed household (running percent of person- periods), %	15.09	23.71
Homeowner (running percent of person-periods), %	87.45	78.80
Employed, head (running percent of person-periods), %	59.92	40.39
Recently retired, head (prior wave), %	6.48	7.84
Recently unemployed, head (prior wave), %	1.20	1.87
Recently widowed/divorced (prior wave), %	1.79	3.17
Built environment category (single-point-in-time), %
High density	11.27	10.35
Low density	32.41	36.19
Service dense	8.56	7.28
Commercially declined	2.65	4.85
Average	45.11	41.32
Built environment category (running average), %
High density	14.30	11.75
Low density	24.86	29.66
Service dense	5.62	6.06
Commercially declined	2.16	4.76
Average	53.06	47.76
N (person-periods)	14,300	1,072

Note: First of 10 imputation data sets. Differences by self-rated health are statistically significant at p < .01, with the exception of recently retired and unemployed, which are not significantly different.

^aFamily income is standardized to the year 2000 consumer price index.