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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2017 Dec;54(6):2001–2024. doi: 10.1007/s13524-017-0623-x

Table 3.

Nonparametric estimates of hazard rate gap between blacks and non-Hispanic whites

A. Social Security Administration 2012 Match

Age Black-White Gap P-value Age Black-White Gap P-value

59 0.0027 0.500 75 0.0013 0.922
60 0.0013 0.803 76 0.0076 0.462
61 −0.0007 1.000 77 −0.0033 0.778
62 0.0028 0.531 78 −0.0112 0.313
63 0.0018 0.728 79 −0.0146 0.191
64 0.0006 0.895 80 −0.0262 0.018
65 0.0036 0.519 81 −0.0323 0.008
66 0.0114 0.041 82 −0.0265 0.045
67 0.0023 0.670 83 −0.0207 0.108
68 0.0124 0.058 84 −0.0417 0.002
69 0.0097 0.151 85 −0.0526 0.000
70 0.0120 0.078 86 −0.0290 0.049
71 0.0128 0.074 87 −0.0603 0.000
72 0.0060 0.434 88 −0.0295 0.055
73 −0.0033 0.752 89 −0.0361 0.022
74 0.0026 0.763

B. Vital Statistics 2008 Match

Age Black-White Gap P-value Age Black-White Gap P-value

59 0.0046 0.198 75 0.0127 0.240
60 0.0075 0.124 76 0.0271 0.029
61 0.0002 1.000 77 0.0205 0.111
62 0.0031 0.562 78 0.0236 0.078
63 0.0092 0.059 79 0.0038 0.766
64 0.0042 0.437 80 −0.0098 0.539
65 −0.0025 0.727 81 −0.0067 0.765
66 0.0190 0.003 82 0.0102 0.555
67 0.0165 0.011 83 0.0133 0.510
68 0.0114 0.106 84 −0.0210 0.316
69 0.0317 0.000 85 −0.0344 0.161
70 0.0114 0.133 86 −0.0051 0.908
71 0.0215 0.011 87 −0.0498 0.064
72 0.0175 0.053 88 −0.0019 1.000
73 0.0181 0.054 89 0.0131 0.682
74 0.0059 0.559

Source: Authors’ calculations, National Longitudinal Survey, Old Men Cohort. P-values reported are based on a two-tailed Fisher’s Exact Test of the hypothesis that blacks and non-Hispanic whites have the same mortality rate at a given age.