Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics by Baseline Health

	No Limitations	One Limitation	Two Limitations	Three Limitations	Four Limitations	Five + Limitations	Total Sample
	N = 3456	N = 1615	N = 1035	N = 677	N = 513	N = 1168	N = 8464
White Female	0.395	0.47	0.503	0.563	0.585	0.525	0.464
White Male	0.515	0.444	0.409	0.353	0.302	0.298	0.436
Black Female	0.037	0.058	0.056	0.058	0.074	0.125	0.058
Black Male	0.053	0.028	0.032	0.026	0.039	0.053	0.043
Less than HS diploma	0.194	0.224	0.272	0.321	0.39	0.506	0.27
Completed HS	0.317	0.378	0.36	0.398	0.366	0.303	0.341
Some college	0.232	0.212	0.203	0.163	0.165	0.129	0.202
Completed college degree	0.258	0.186	0.165	0.118	0.079	0.063	0.186
Respondent married at Round 2	0.772	0.768	0.763	0.714	0.692	0.614	0.741
Respondent ever smoked at Round 2	0.624	0.63	0.644	0.628	0.656	0.715	0.641
First Wealth Quintile (Lowest Wealth)	0.101	0.126	0.141	0.216	0.232	0.377	0.162
Second Wealth Quintile	0.147	0.166	0.160	0.209	0.200	0.237	0.171
Third Wealth Quintile	0.197	0.210	0.217	0.206	0.240	0.161	0.201
Fourth Wealth Quintile	0.258	0.231	0.226	0.171	0.189	0.128	0.221
Fifth Wealth Quintile (Highest Wealth)	0.298	0.267	0.256	0.197	0.139	0.098	0.244
No occupation reported	0.102	0.118	0.118	0.122	0.135	0.166	0.119
Occupation professional, managerial, clerical or sales	0.585	0.526	0.499	0.488	0.396	0.349	0.515
Occupation production, service, operations or farming	0.313	0.356	0.383	0.391	0.470	0.486	0.367
Last observed with higher limitationsa	0.628	0.657	0.605	0.635	0.602	0.501	0.614
Functional limitations ever increased	0.778	0.795	0.798	0.778	0.759	0.65	0.767
Functional limitations ever decreased	0	0.67	0.754	0.687	0.743	0.74	0.414
Not observed for 2 or more survey rounds	0.045	0.041	0.03	0.046	0.039	0.088	0.047
Average last survey round observed	10.359	10.008	10.32	9.629	9.47	8.744	9.974
Died	0.277	0.358	0.369	0.421	0.499	0.591	0.368
Lost to follow up	0.217	0.19	0.162	0.192	0.155	0.117	0.187

Note: ^aCalculated for those observed for 2 or more survey rounds.