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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2018 Nov 26;38(1):63–74. doi: 10.1037/hea0000638

Table 1.

Participant Sociodemographic Characteristics and Self-Reported Lifetime Discrimination Burden and Racial Discrimination Descriptives (N = 71)

Variable Mean (SD)/N% Range

Age 50.58 (9.92) 32.9 – 69.4
% Female 60.6%
% Lower SES 54.9%
% <125% federal poverty level 43.7%
Educational attainment (years) 12.73 (2.64) 3 – 20
Racial discrimination summary score* 1.31 (1.59) 0 – 6
Ever experience discrimination...
At school? 11.3%
When getting a job? 31.0%
At work? 39.4%
When getting housing? 14.1%
When getting medical care? 7.0%
From the police or in courts 28.2%
Lifetime discrimination burden 2.00 (1.01) 1 – 4

Lower SES = lower socioeconomic status. Lower SES reflects participants who were living below the poverty line (i.e., < 125% of the 2004 Federal poverty level relative to family size), had fewer than 12 years of education, or both.

*

% Reflects participants affirming these experiences.