Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics.
| Characteristic | Men | Women | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohort | Time 3 | Cohort | Time 3 | |||||
| Respondents | Respondents | |||||||
| N = 1,067 | n = 713 | N = 1,513 | n = 1,015 | |||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Age | 63.15 | 5.87 | 63.09 | 5.75 | 52.48 | 9.07 | 52.91 | 8.84 |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||
| White | 750 | 70.3 | 506 | 70.9 | 1095 | 72.4 | 749 | 73.8 |
| Black or African American | 187 | 17.5 | 125 | 17.5 | 286 | 18.9 | 185 | 18.2 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 76 | 7.1 | 47 | 6.6 | 71 | 4.7 | 46 | 4.5 |
| Other | 54 | 5.1 | 35 | 4.9 | 61 | 4.0 | 35 | 3.4 |
| Served during the Vietnam conflict | 933 | 87.4 | 644 | 90.3 | 343 | 22.7 | 248 | 24.4 |
| At least some college experiencea | 590 | 55.3 | 424 | 59.4 | 1274 | 84.2 | 857 | 84.4 |
| Marrieda | 608 | 57.0 | 409 | 57.4 | 551 | 36.4 | 365 | 36.0 |
a
As of the Time 1 (1998-2000) survey. Time 3 respondents are the subset of the cohort who returned Time 3 surveys.