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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Sep;71(9):1041–1048. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.724

Table 1.

Demographics among men and women, by military history and service era

Overall All-volunteer Era1 Draft Era2
Military Hx n (%) No Military Hx n (%) p Military Hx n (%) No Military Hx n (%) p Military Hx n (%) No Military Hx n (%) p
Men n=8,447 n=15,404 n=1,586 n=9,355 n=6,861 n=6,049
Age (Mean, SD) 59.6 (0.44) 42.9 (0.24) <.001 41.3 (0.39) 36.9 (0.21) <.001 70.2 (0.18) 64.6 (0.18) <.001
Race/Ethnicity
 White, non-Hispanic 6,882 (87.5) 12,146 (83.3) <.001 1,212 (78.8) 7,228 (76.6) .268 5,670 (87.4) 4,918 (84.5) .009
 Racial/Ethnic Minority 1,385 (12.5) 3,041 (16.7) 341 (21.2) 2,014 (23.4) 1,044 (12.6) 1,027 (15.5)
Education
 <High school diploma 3,067 (37.5) 5,386 (38.2) .285 551 (33.3) 3,352 (38.8) .014 2,516 (38.8) 2,034 (35.6) .030
 Some college or higher 5,356 (62.5) 9,977 (61.8) 1,031 (66.7) 5,987 (61.2) 4,325 (61.2) 3,990 (64.4)
Women n=785 n=35,742 n=426 n=15,709 n=359 n=20,033
Age (Mean, SD) 49.3 (0.97) 49.4 (0.18) .927 41.3 (0.64) 39.1 (0.15) .001 70.3 (1.15) 68.9 (0.12) .206
Race/Ethnicity
 White, non-Hispanic 606 (82.2) 28,306 (83.6) .521 310 (80.2) 11,877 (80.9) .806 296 (87.5) 16,429 (88.9) .670
 Racial/Ethnic Minority 172 (17.8) 6,989 (16.4) 110 (19.8) 3,698 (19.1) 62 (12.4) 3,291 (11.1)
Education
 <High school diploma 185 (24.5) 12,975 (36.9) <.001 85 (20.3) 4,777 (31.6) .003 100 (35.6) 8,198 (47.1) .015
 Some college or higher 600 (75.5) 22,681 (63.1) 341 (79.7) 10,904 (68.4) 259 (64.4) 11,777 (52.9)

Note: Frequencies are unweighted; means, standard deviations, and percentages are weighted; Hx=history

1

= Persons 18 years old on or after 1973 (ages 18–55 years in 2010)

2

= Persons older than 18 years in 1973 (ages ≥56 years in 2010)