Educated but on Social Security Disability Insurance: Minorities’ Diminished Returns

Table 1.

Descriptive Data Overall (n = 12,975)

  Mean Std. Deviation

Age 47.34 16.230

Educational Attainment (Years) 11.24 2.280

  n %

Race    

White 11287 87.0

Black 1688 13.0

Ethnicity    

Non-Latino 10949 84.4

Latino 2026 15.6

Immigrant    

No 11869 91.5

Yes 1106 8.5

Gender    

Men 5141 39.6

Women 7832 60.4

Married    

No 6178 47.6

Yes 6513 50.2

Working    

No 5333 41.1

Yes 7354 56.7

SSDI Receipt    

No 12165 93.8

Yes 810 6.2

Source: Understanding America Study (UAS), SSDI: Social Security Disability Insurance