Does the prevalence of physical limitations differ by educational attainment?
• Among adults aged 50 years and over, those with less than a high school education have higher rates of physical limitations than adults in the same age group with a high school education or higher. • The effect of education on the prevalence of physical limitations applies for each age and race group. For example, the rate of physical limitations among non-Hispanic white adults aged 60–69 with less than a high school education is about twice the rate of their counterparts with a high school diploma. Similarly, among non-Hispanic black adults aged 70–79, those without a high school diploma are 1.5 times as likely to have one or more physical limitations than non-Hispanic blacks aged 70–79 with a high school diploma.
