Table 2.

Percent of Older Adults who experienced Discrimination^a

	African American		Black Caribbean		Non-Latino White		Total Sample
	Mean	% Who experience discrimination	Mean	% Who experience discrimination	Mean	% Who experience discrimination	Mean	% Who experience discrimination
Major Discrimination b
Unfairly fired	0.17	17.24	0.16	16.08	0.14	14.48	0.16	15.64
Not been hired for a job †	0.21	21.09	0.27	26.67	0.12	12.21	0.16	16.16
Denied Promotion ††	0.21	20.70	0.21	20.83	0.12	11.81	0.16	15.66
Stopped, searched, questioned, physically threatened or abused by police †††	0.19	19.47	0.15	15.37	0.08	8.42	0.13	13.09
Discouraged from continuing education	0.09	9.10	0.12	11.54	0.06	5.76	0.07	7.29
Prevented from moving into a neighborhood †††	0.09	8.53	0.09	8.57	0.01	1.42	0.04	4.49
Neighbors made life difficult ††	0.08	8.14	0.03	3.24	0.05	4.59	0.06	5.99
Denied bank loan †††	0.14	13.72	0.12	11.65	0.02	1.50	0.07	6.67
Received poor service	0.15	14.89	0.15	15.27	0.10	10.39	0.12	12.34
Everyday Discrimination
Treated with less courtesy	2.18	65.72	2.16	64.56	1.79	59.83	1.96	62.36
Treated with less respect	2.10	61.26	2.04	58.86	1.74	48.65	1.90	54.05
Poor restaurant service	1.96	56.25	1.90	54.77	1.53	41.28	1.71	47.72
Not smart	2.12	57.66	2.31	67.47	1.75	47.54	1.92	52.19
Being feared	1.68	39.73	1.99	42.90	1.38	28.11	1.52	33.24
Being dishonest	1.72	40.35	1.61	38.93	1.33	27.37	1.49	32.95
Not as good as others	2.33	61.25	2.59	67.52	1.99	58.67	2.14	59.95
Insulted	1.56	36.32	1.59	36.18	1.50	35.64	1.52	35.93
Harassed	1.38	28.48	1.44	31.60	1.34	31.54	1.36	30.30
Followed in stores	1.78	42.40	1.83	47.00	1.19	18.21	1.45	28.76
Everyday Discrimination Summary Variables
Sum of Any Everyday Discrimination	8.76		9.40		5.53		6.95
Sum of Any Everyday Racial Discrimination	5.70		6.06		0.81		2.96
Sum of Any Everyday Other Discrimination	1.93		2.80		2.99		2.55

^aPercentages are weighted and frequencies are unweighted.

^bThe major discrimination variables are dichotomous. Consequently, the means and the percentages are equal.

^†p < 0.05;

^††p < 0.01;

^†††p < 0.001 for % who experience