Table 1.
Weighted Means CPS 1986 – 1997
| Sample | All | Unmarried | Less than High School |
Black | Other Race |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employed last year | 0.656 | 0.537 | 0.523 | 0.578 | 0.602 |
| Labor force participation last year | 0.677 | 0.591 | 0.554 | 0.631 | 0.626 |
| Weeks worked last year | 24.451 | 17.787 | 17.396 | 20.781 | 23.077 |
| Usual weekly hours worked last year | 22.741 | 18.909 | 18.028 | 21.126 | 22.163 |
| Wages | 8541.019 | 4514.989 | 3904.556 | 6278.060 | 9499.078 |
| Log Wages | 4.710 | 3.382 | 3.045 | 4.005 | 4.335 |
| Simulated % Medicaid eligible | 0.221 | 0.302 | 0.201 | 0.424 | 0.258 |
| Unmarried | 0.181 | 1.000 | 0.260 | 0.589 | 0.123 |
| Less than high school | 0.380 | 0.548 | 1.000 | 0.466 | 0.330 |
| Black | 0.127 | 0.414 | 0.156 | 1.000 | 0.000 |
| Other race | 0.042 | 0.029 | 0.037 | 0.000 | 1.000 |
| Age | 27.946 | 25.531 | 26.249 | 26.703 | 28.714 |
| State unemployment rate | 6.415 | 6.421 | 6.531 | 6.486 | 6.528 |
| State poverty rate | 19.981 | 14.229 | 17.817 | 16.241 | 19.717 |
| State % men aged 25-64 and <200% with private insurance | 0.308 | 0.301 | 0.309 | 0.296 | 0.304 |
Notes: Weighted sample means are reported. There are 24,177 observations for women age 18-39 with a child less than one year old.