Examining the Racial Crossover in Mortality between African American and White Older Adults: A Multilevel Survival Analysis of Race, Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context

Table 4

The effect of individual SES and neighborhood context on mortality over time (1986–2002) for people aged 65+ at baseline: multilevel survival model (including interactions of race and other covariates).

Variables	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Black	0.102	0.013	0.222	0.222
Male	0.711***	0.632***	0.634***	0.632***
Age	0.085**	0.085**	0.086***	0.0852***
Black*age
Black*male	−0.254
Black*F-income		0.0040
Black*education			0.0283
Black*Neigh. SDI				0.0086
F-income	−0.071*	−0.071*	−0.066*	−0.070**
Education	−0.015	−0.015	−0.026	−0.014
Neighborhood SDI	0.075+	0.075+	0.079*	0.077
Random effect	0.0052	0.0051	0.0051	0.0051

*** 𝑃<0.001; **𝑃<0.01; *𝑃<0.05; ⁺𝑃<.10.
Neighborhood SDI: Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index; Random effect: random effects of neighborhood; F-income: Family income.