Table 2.

Sociodemographic Characteristics (%) of the Study Sample According to Latent Class of Perceived Interpersonal Discrimination, Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, 1996–2008

Characteristic	Class
	Class 1a (n = 366)	Class 2b (n = 203)	Class 3c (n = 561)	Class 4d (n = 483)
Age, yearse	45.9 (2.6)	46.2 (2.8)	45.8 (2.6)	45.8 (2.7)
Race/ethnicity
Black or African-American	40.7	10.3	25.7	20.1
Chinese-American	17.8	5.9	12.5	7.5
Japanese-American	9.8	19.2	9.8	10.8
Non-Hispanic white	31.7	64.5	52.1	61.7
Education
Less than high school	2.7	1.5	2.9	2.5
High school graduate	12.6	13.8	12.7	14.9
Some college/technical school	33.1	30.5	31.7	32.7
College graduate	22.7	23.7	24.8	20.5
Postgraduate education	29.0	30.5	28.0	29.4
Marital status
Single or never married	16.9	9.4	13.6	14.3
Married	60.1	75.9	67.7	68.7
Separated, widowed, or divorced	23.0	14.8	18.7	17.0
Nativity
Born abroad	15.6	24.6	15.9	15.7
Born in the United States	84.4	75.4	84.1	84.3
Occupation
Professional	56.8	58.6	60.4	58.8
Nonmanual worker	6.0	7.4	5.4	6.6
Skilled manual worker	23.0	21.2	17.8	19.9
Semiskilled or unskilled manual worker	14.2	12.8	16.4	14.7
CES-D score at baselinee	0.61 (0.49)	0.33 (0.47)	0.51 (0.50)	0.46 (0.50)
CES-D score at wave 10e	0.57 (0.50)	0.25 (0.43)	0.46 (0.50)	0.36 (0.48)

Abbreviation: CES-D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

^a Accumulation of perceived discrimination over time, domains, and attributes.

^b No experiences of perceived interpersonal discrimination.

^c Accumulation of several domains over time; attribution due to sex and other reasons.

^d Accumulation of some domains over time; attribution due to other reasons; reduction over time.

^e Values are expressed as mean (standard deviation).