Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education

Figures & data

Table 1 Sample description (percentage of person-years): adults aged 50–100 in the US, 1998–2016

	Partnered	Unpartnered	NCI partnered	CI partnered	NCI unpartnered	CI unpartnered	Total
Overall	63	36	54	9	26	10	100
Age (average)	–	–	66	73	69	78	69
Sex
Women	52	47	46	6	34	13	58
Men	78	22	65	13	16	6	42
Race/ethnicity
White	67	33	60	7	25	8	73
Black	46	54	34	12	34	20	17
Latinx	66	34	49	17	21	13	11
Education
Less than HS^1	54	46	34	20	21	25	23
HS^1/GED^2/some college	63	37	56	7	29	8	52
Associate or higher	71	29	68	3	26	3	25
Total person-years	116,192	67,160	99,565	16,627	48,112	19,048	183,352

¹ High school.

² General equivalency degree.

Note: N respondents  =  34,850. NCI refers to not cognitively impaired; CI refers to cognitively impaired. Percentages are row percentages apart from the final column, which gives column percentages.

Source: Health and Retirement Study, 1998–2016.

Table 2 Total life expectancies and partnership expectancies at age 50, overall and by race/ethnicity and education: men in the US, 1998–2016

	Partnered years	Unpartnered years	Total life expectancy
Overall	20.8	7.5	28.3
Race/ethnicity
White	21.7	6.9	28.6
Black	15.4	10.8	26.2
Latinx	22.6	7.1	29.7
Education
Less than HS^1	18.1	7.4	25.5
HS^1/GED^2/some college	20.0	7.7	27.7
Associate or higher	23.7	7.3	31.0

¹ High school.

² General equivalency degree.

Note: All expectancies are in years.

Source: As for Table 1.

Table 3 Total life expectancies and partnership expectancies at age 50, overall and by race/ethnicity and education: women in the US, 1998–2016

	Partnered years	Unpartnered years	Total life expectancy
Overall	15.6	17.4	33.0
Race/ethnicity
White	17.5	16.1	33.6
Black	9.0	21.5	30.5
Latinx	16.1	20.0	36.1
Education
Less than HS^1	12.2	17.5	29.7
HS^1/GED^2/some college	15.5	17.8	33.3
Associate or higher	18.4	17.3	35.7

¹ High school.

² General equivalency degree.

Note: All expectancies are in years.

Source: As for Table 1.

Table 4 Expectancies of life in the cognitively impaired and unpartnered state at age 50, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education: US, 1998–2016

	Women	Men
Overall	5.2 (4.6, 5.9)	2.0 (1.6, 2.5)
Race/ethnicity
White	4.2 (3.6, 4.7)	1.5 (1.3, 1.9)
Black	9.0 (7.9, 10.3)	4.5 (3.6, 5.7)
Latinx	9.9 (8.6, 11.2)	2.7 (2.0, 3.6)
Education
Less than HS^1	8.1 (7.1, 9.1)	3.4 (2.8, 4.2)
HS^1/GED^2/some college	4.3 (3.7, 4.9)	1.8 (1.4, 2.3)
Associate or higher	2.8 (2.3, 3.2)	0.7 (0.6, 1.0)

¹ High school.

² General equivalency degree.

Note: All expectancies are in years.

Source: As for Table 1.