Table 1.
Sociodemographic Characteristics of the National Survey of American Life Sample by Ethnicity*
| No. (%) [SE]† | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American (n = 3570) |
Caribbean Black (n = 1621) |
Statistics | ||||
| Sex | ||||||
| Men | 1271 (35.6) [0.8] | 643 (39.7) [1.2] |  |
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| Women | 2299 (64.4) [0.8] | 978 (60.3) [1.2] | ||||
| Marital status‡ | ||||||
| Never married | 1337 (37.6) [1.5] | 639 (39.5) [1.5] |  |
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| Previously married | 1256 (35.4) [0.8] | 418 (25.9) [1.5] | ||||
| Married | 960 (27.0) [1.3] | 559 (34.6) [1.4] | ||||
| Birth year cohort | ||||||
| 1939 or before | 528 (14.8) [0.8] | 182 (11.2) [2.1] |  |
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| 1940–1954 | 738 (20.7) [0.8] | 304 (18.8) [0.6] | ||||
| 1955–1964 | 843 (23.6) [0.7] | 387 (23.9) [1.5] | ||||
| 1965–1974 | 799 (22.4) [0.8] | 401 (24.7) [1.6] | ||||
| 1975 or after | 662 (18.5) [1.2] | 347 (21.4) [1.1] | ||||
| Education status‡ | ||||||
| Less than high school | 916 (25.9) [1.4] | 304 (18.9) [1.7] |  |
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| High school graduate | 1344 (38.1) [1.0] | 477 (29.7) [1.2] | ||||
| Some college | 799 (22.6) [0.9] | 438 (27.3) [1.6] | ||||
| College graduate | 471 (13.3) [1.0] | 388 (24.1) [1.3] | ||||
| Region§ | ||||||
| Northeast | 411 (11.5) [0.8] | 1135 (70.0) [2.4] |  |
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| Midwest | 595 (16.7) [1.6] | 12 (0.8) [0.4] | ||||
| South | 2330 (65.3) [2.1] | 456 (28.1) [2.4] | ||||
| West | 234 (6.5) [0.7] | 18 (1.1) [0.5] | ||||
All estimates in this field represent raw frequencies and percentages; they are not weighted to be nationally representative of the given population and subpopulations in the contiguous 48 US states.
Standard errors and χ2 statistics are adjusted for the sampling stratification and clustering, but not weighting of the data.
There were 17 African American and 5 Caribbean black respondents with missing data for marital status, forty African American and 14 Caribbean black respondents with missing data for education status. Due to this, the variables do not add up to the total.
Northeast denotes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Midwest denotes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; South denotes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennes-see, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; West denotes Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming (Alaska and Hawaii are not included in this study).