. 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 5.

Parameter estimates from the measurement error-corrected hazard model, NHIS data

Variable in the Hazard Model

Age	0.121
	(0.0110)
Age²	−0.000408
	(0.000380)
Black	0.334
	(0.267)
Black × Age	−0.0242
	(0.0392)
Black × Age²	0.000673
	(0.00140)
Hispanic	0.0436
	(0.450)
Hispanic × Age	−0.0414
	(0.0624)
Hispanic × Age²	0.00216
	(0.00210)
Constant	−3.589
	(0.0773)

Estimated Rate of Missing Deaths
Error Rate for White	0.037
	(0.00229)
Error Rate for Black	0.071
	(0.0091)
Error Rate for Hispanic	0.110
	(0.0160)

Observations (N × Years)	119,007

Source: Authors’ calculations, National Health Interview Survey. In this regression the age variable is constructed so that Age = 1 for the youngest age in the data, which is age 72.