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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Feb;40(2):307–316. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.02142

Exhibit 1:

Summary statistics

Variable April 2020 January 2011–April 2020
Counts (n)
 Individual-months 241,500,000 26,680,000,000
 Deaths 276,000 22,400,000
Summary statistics
 Average age (years) 45.14 44.28
 Female (%) 51.17 51.23
Geography (%)
 Northeast 17.43 17.72
 Midwest 21.99 22.29
 South 37.67 37.34
 West 22.91 22.66
Race (%)
 White, Non-Hispanic 65.96 67.36
 Hispanic 14.70 13.67
 Black, non-Hispanic 12.57 12.32
 Asian, non-Hispanic 5.27 5.18
 American Indian and Alaskan, non-Hispanic 0.19 0.19
 Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic 0.40 0.38

SOURCE Authors’ calculations from Census Numident 2011–2020, 2010 Decennial Census, 2010 Census Modeled Race File, and 2010–19 Master Address File Auxiliary Reference File. NOTES Table shows summary statistics for the baseline analytic data set constructed from the US Census Bureau version of the Social Security Administration’s Numerical Identification System database covering population and deaths from January 2011 to April 2020. The first column shows summary statistics for people who were alive at the start of April 2020. The second column shows summary statistics for all people in our baseline analytic data set who were alive as of January 1, 2011, and who were tracked until April 2020 (inclusively). All results were approved for release by the US Census Bureau, authorization number CBDRB-FY21-ERD002-003.