. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 13.

Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2018 Dec;55(6):2119–2128. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0717-0

Table 1.

Lifetime prevalence of homelessness at midlife, by race/ethnicity, for the Baby Boom cohort (birth years 1946–1963) observed at ages 51–68

	Total	Non-Hispanic White	Hispanic (any race)	Non-Hispanic Black
Bivariate Results
Prob(Ever homeless)	0.062 (0.003)	0.048 (0.003)	0.081^* (0.015)	0.168^** (0.017)
Multivariate Results^a
Prob(Ever homeless)	0.056 (0.003)	0.037 (0.003)	0.050 (0.014)	0.120^** (0.015)
Mean Characteristics
Age	60.0	60.0	59.8	59.9
Education
Less than high school	0.092	0.052	0.399^**	0.183^**
High school	0.279	0.279	0.262	0.293
Some college	0.458	0.479	0.265^**	0.446
College degree or more	0.170	0.191	0.073^**	0.078^**
Female	0.552	0.545	0.547	0.608^**
Military veteran	0.131	0.134	0.070^**	0.156
U.S.-born	0.925	0.968	0.473^**	0.932^**
Unweighted n	6,545	4,085	1,015	1,445

Note: Standard errors are shown in parentheses.

Source: Health and Retirement Study, 2012 and 2014.

Average predicted probabilities from a multivariate logistic model, calculated with all covariates held constant at their mean values. Covariates in addition to race/ethnicity include age, education, gender, veteran status, U.S. nativity, region, and urbanicity.

Estimate is significantly different from the estimate for Non-Hispanic whites at p < .05

^**

Estimate is significantly different from the estimate for Non-Hispanic whites at p < .01