living alone               000         .00      0.00   0.00         0.00    Widowed, sep. or divorced         000         .00      0.00   0.00         0.00                                                                                  Income level\*                     0,000       .00      0.00   .00          0.00                                                                                  \# household members               0,000       .00      .00    .00          0.00                                                                                  Female                             000         \<.000   .00    .00          .00                                                                                  Age                                0,000       .00      .00    .00          0.00                                                                                  Race                                                                            White                             0,000                0.00                    African American                  000         .00      .00    .00          0.00    Other                             000         .00      0.00   .00          0.00                                                                                  Health status                                                                   Excellent                         000                  0.00                    Very good                         0,000       .00      0.00   .00          0.00    Good                              000         .00      0.00   .00          0.00    Fair/Poor                         000         .00      0.00   .00          0.00  \* The income variable used was the total household post-government income created for use in the Cross-National Equivalent File\[[@B00]\]. This represents the combined income after taxes and government transfers. A Box-Cox transformation was performed on this variable to normalize it.  Among th