Table 2.

Measurement error by race and ethnicity: Respondents reported dead in the survey, with a missing match to administrative records, NLS-OM data

	Black	Non-black Hispanic	Non-Hispanic white
VS90 Match
Fraction missing when survey reports a	0.280	0.300	0.193
death
Number missing	245	6	333
SSA12 Match
Fraction missing when survey reports a	0.206	0.150	0.110
death
Number missing	180	3	191
VS08 Match
Fraction missing when survey reports a	0.042	0.000	0.018
death
Number missing	37	0	31
N	1,420	82	3,467

Source: Authors’ calculations, National Longitudinal Survey, Old Men Cohort. There are 2,660 respondents reported as deceased by the survey by 1990: 874 blacks, 20 non-black Hispanics, 1,730 non-Hispanic whites (and 36 other race not included in the above analysis). If we test the null hypothesis that the rates of error are the same for blacks and non-Hispanic whites, we reject the hypothesis at the 0.001 percent confidence level for the VS90 Match, the SSA12 Match, and the VS08 Match.