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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Aging Phys Act. 2018 Nov 21;27(3):334–342. doi: 10.1123/japa.2018-0032

Table 2.

Descriptive: Population Characteristics of Resident Sample

All men (N = 1,209) Men aged 18–25 (n = 136) Men 26–39 (n = 353) Men 40–59 (n = 509) Men 60+ (n = 211) p value All women (N = 1,741) Female 18–25 (n = 196) Female 26–39 (n = 578) Female 40–59 (n = 781) Female 60+ (n = 186) p value
Race/ethnicity (%)
 Latino 67.4 69.6 51.7 74.9 74.4 <.0001 78.0 79.1 69.7 83.4 80.1 <.0001
 White 12.2 11.1 18.8 10.3 6.6 <.0001 8.6 9.7 10.8 6.2 11.3 .01
 Black 12.7 14.1 15.6 11.1 10.9 .19 7.8 6.6 9.2 7.7 4.8 .24
 Asian/Pacific Islanders 2.0 3.0 2.3 1.6 1.9 .74 2.0 2.0 3.5 0.9 2.2 .01
 American Indian/Alaska Native 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.0 .83 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 other 5.5 2.2 11.4 2.0 6.2 <.0001 3.7 2.6 7.1 1.9 1.6 <.0001
Have child(ren) under age 18 (%) 36.2 9.6 48.6 49.7 0.0 <.0001 52.7 22.2 82.4 50.8 1.1 <.0001
Employment (%)
 full time 57.2 24.4 75.4 73.9 7.6 <.0001 33.7 26.7 43.2 35.8 3.2 <.0001
 part time 12.5 46.7 12.5 4.9 8.5 <.0001 16.5 27.7 16.3 16.3 6.5 <.0001
 self-employed 7.8 3.7 6.0 10.7 6.6 .01 5.9 0.5 3.5 9.5 3.8 <.0001
 unemployed 5.6 11.1 5.4 5.5 2.4 .01 3.9 4.6 3.8 4.3 2.2 .57
 retired 11.8 0.0 0.0 1.8 63.0 <.0001 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.5 52.7 <.0001
 disabled 6.2 0.0 0.0 4.6 24.6 <.0001 1.3 0.0 0.0 1.0 8.1 <.0001
 student 8.6 46.7 11.1 0.4 0.0 <.0001 10.6 59.0 9.7 1.7 0.0 <.0001
 home/parent 1.2 0.7 0.9 1.8 1.0 .56 45.7 10.8 48.0 54.8 37.1 <.0001
 other 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.3 1.1 .11
Education (%)
 high school 36.9 17.0 15.7 45.0 66.2 <.0001 30.1 4.6 14.7 38.7 68.9 <.0001
 high school 25.9 40.7 27.4 27.4 10.5 <.0001 37.8 31.3 46.3 39.3 11.5 <.0001
 some college 13.2 32.6 14.8 9.1 7.6 <.0001 18.0 52.3 18.3 11.3 8.7 <.0001
 associate degree 12.2 7.4 22.2 7.1 10.5 <.0001 8.2 8.2 10.8 6.7 6.0 .03
 bachelor’s 9.7 0.7 17.7 8.9 3.8 <.0001 5.6 3.6 9.4 3.3 4.9 <.0001
 graduate school/degree 2.2 1.5 2.3 2.6 1.4 .72 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.6 0.0 .50
Medical diagnoses (%)
 asthma 5.5 5.1 1.8 2.2 19.8 <.0001 4.3 1.6 2.4 2.1 22.4 <.0001
 diabetes 14.4 0.0 0.9 16.5 39.6 <.0001 12.3 0.0 1.8 13.5 53.0 <.0001
 high cholesterol 13.1 0.0 2.7 17.5 27.1 <.0001 11.0 0.0 2.8 13.5 37.4 <.0001
 heart disease 5.5 0.0 0.0 4.4 20.3 <.0001 2.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 13.7 <.0001
 hypertension 18.5 0.0 1.5 21.3 50.2 <.0001 15.9 0.0 1.2 20.9 57.9 <.0001
 weight problem 8.5 1.7 4.7 10.8 13.0 <.0001 10.1 2.60 6.5 13.8 14.2 <.0001