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Educated but on Social Security Disability Insurance: Minorities’ Diminished Returns
Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences
| Vol 4, Issue 2
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