Table 1.

EDS survey response weighting structure, summary and tertile ranges, and description by coding approach, African American Women’s Heart and Health Study, Northern California, 2012–2013 (n=207)

	Situation-based coding	Frequency-based coding	Chronicity-based coding
EDS response
Never	0	1	0
Less than once a year	1	2	0.5
A few times a year		3	3
A few times a month		4	12
At least once a week		5	104
Almost everyday		6	260
Summary score range	0–10	10–60	0–2600
Lower tertile range	0–7	10–22	0–24
Middle tertile range	8–9	23–35	24.5–448
Upper tertile range	10	36–60	482–2600
Description	Number of situations ‘ever’	Likert scale summary score experienced	Total annual number of EDS experiences

Owing to the granularity of the chronicity coding, not all possible values of annual EDS experiences are represented.

EDS, Everyday Discrimination Scale.