Characteristics of sample of US urban adults aged 58–69 years in 2000, n=2184
| Individual-level socio-demographic characteristics | % or Mean | SD |
| Gender | ||
| Female | 57.57 | |
| Male | 42.43 | |
| Age (years) | 63.34 | 3.20 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Non-Hispanic white | 75.61 | |
| African–American | 14.20 | |
| Hispanic | 7.52 | |
| Other | 2.66 | |
| Marital status | ||
| Married | 68.55 | |
| Widowed | 12.98 | |
| Separated/divorced | 13.36 | |
| Never married | 5.11 | |
| Education (years) | 12.77 | 2.97 |
| Income (thousands $) | 56.83 | 15.83 |
| Wealth (thousands $) | 545.42 | 153.08 |
| Employment status | ||
| Employed | 47.40 | |
| Unemployed | 0.50 | |
| Retired | 39.06 | |
| Disabled | 3.20 | |
| Not in labour force | 9.83 | |
| Neighbourhood-level characteristics (864 US Census tracts) | ||
| Average proportion unemployed between 1990–2000 | 0.08 | 0.06 |
| Change in neighbourhood unemployment between 1990 and 2000 | −0.002 | 0.04 |
Individual-level data are weighted.