Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics at Baseline, Adults Aged 65+ (N = 13,452 Persons)
| Percent/mean | SE | Percent/mean | SE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respondent’s characteristics | Respondent early life conditions | ||||
| Cognitive health | Parental education | ||||
| Not impaired | 94.3 | <High school | 68.6 | ||
| Impaired | 5.7 | High school | 19.5 | ||
| Age | 72.0 | 0.06 | Some college | 5.7 | |
| Birth cohort | College+ | 6.2 | |||
| AHEAD (<1924) | 26.0 | Poor childhood health | 6.2 | ||
| CODA (1924–1930) | 20.3 | Southern birth | 34.7 | ||
| HRS (1931–1941) | 42.7 | ||||
| WB (1942–1947) | 11.1 | ||||
| Gender | Offspring characteristics | ||||
| Men | 43.0 | Offspring education | |||
| Women | 57.0 | No offspring w/college | 13.7 | ||
| Race | Some offspring w/college | 44.5 | |||
| NH White | 77.9 | All offspring w/college | 41.8 | ||
| Black | 12.6 | Received transfers from 1+ child | 2.6 | ||
| Other | 1.7 | Proximity to offspring | |||
| Hispanic | 7.8 | No child cores/lives w/in 10 miles | 38.2 | ||
| Marital status | 1+ child cores/lives w/in 10 miles | 61.8 | |||
| Married/partnered | 65.1 | ||||
| Separated/divorced | 8.9 | ||||
| Widowed | 25.3 | Respondent’s health behaviors/conditions | |||
| Never married | 0.6 | Ever smoked | 11.6 | ||
| Respondent education | Exercise at baseline | 36.8 | |||
| <High school | 30.2 | Ever diagnosed—diabetes | 20.5 | ||
| High school | 33.8 | Ever diagnosed—heart disease | 28.5 | ||
| Some college | 18.4 | Ever had stroke | 9.3 | ||
| College+ | 17.6 | CES-D | 1.5 | 0.02 | |
| Number of kids | 3.5 | 0.02 | |||
| Proxy status | 9.4 |
Note: Source: HRS, 2000–2012. CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale; HRS = Health and Retirement Study.