Table 1

Description of weighted Household Pulse Survey data, overall and by housing tenure

 % missing Overall Housing tenure Owned, no loan Owned with loan Rented P value No of survey responses, waves 1–12 (N) – 957 714 229 129 485 739 242 846 – SRH (mean (SD)) 0.0 3.5 (1.1) 3.5 (1.1) 3.6 (1.0) 3.3 (1.1) <0.001 Mental distress (mean (SD)) 0.0 3.8 (3.7) 2.9 (3.4) 3.6 (3.5) 4.7 (3.4) <0.001 Age (mean (SD)) 0.0 48.5 (16.8) 58.5 (16.8) 48.5 (15.4) 41.4 (15.3) <0.001 Number of people in household (mean (SD)) 0.0 3.5 (2.0) 3.2 (2.1) 3.6 (1.9) 3.4 (2.0) <0.001 Job loss (%) 0.1 <0.001 Yes 48.3 35.0 48.0 58.2 No 51.7 65.0 52.0 41.8 Food security (%) 0.1 <0.001 High 46.1 59.1 51.5 29.2 Moderate 21.5 19.2 22.0 22.6 Low 32.3 21.7 26.5 48.3 Rent/mortgage confidence (%) 0.4* <0.001 High 54.0 – 62.8 41.3 Moderate 21.4 – 20.6 25.7 Low 24.4 – 14.0 32.0 Will defer 2.0 – 2.7 1.0 Race (%) 0.0 <0.001 Non-Hispanic white 64.1 74.9 69.0 49.6 Non-Hispanic black 11.0 6.4 8.3 18.2 Hispanic 16.4 11.0 13.9 22.8 Other 8.8 7.8 8.8 9.4 Gender (%) 0.0 <0.001 Male 48.4 49.4 50.1 45.4 Female 51.6 50.6 49.9 54.6 Educational attainment (%) 0.0 <0.001 Less than high school grad 7.7 6.5 5.2 12.1 High school grad 29.8 32.4 26.4 32.9 At least some college 62.5 61.0 68.4 55.0 Marital status (%) 0.3 <0.001 Currently married 56.0 62.8 67.4 34.7 Currently single 44.0 37.2 32.6 65.3 Any health insurance (%) 0.0 <0.001 Yes 81.0 74.1 81.3 85.3 No 19.0 25.9 18.7 14.7 Household income (%) 3.5 <0.001 Less than $25 000 15.6 13.8 6.4 30.0$25 000–$34 999 12.0 12.0 7.7 18.2$35 000–$49 999 12.7 13.0 10.7 15.5$50 000–$74 999 18.1 19.0 19.0 16.1$75 000–$99 999 13.3 13.3 16.5 8.6$100 000–$149 999 14.8 14.0 20.6 6.9$150 000+ 13.5 14.8 19.1 4.5
• *The per cent missingness for rent/mortgage confidence is based only on the per cent missingness among homeowners with a mortgage and renters, as homeowners without a mortgage were not asked this question.

• SRH, self-rated health.