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Table 1 Study Demographics from 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

From: Health literacy and meeting breast and cervical cancer screening guidelines among Asians and whites in California

 

Mammography sample

Pap sample

Women 50–74

Women 21–65

All

Asian

White

 

All

Asian

White

 

Unweighted N

11,163

957

10,206

 

15,210

1950

13,260

 
  

%

%

P value

 

%

%

P value

Received screening

85.2

82.0

85.9

0.022

87.2

79.3

89.3

<0.0001

Low health literacy

11.4

19.3

9.8

<0.0001

12.2

17.3

10.7

<0.0001

Demographics

 LEP

6.1

1.0

32.6

<0.001

4.63

1.0

19.3

<0.0001

 Education

   

<0.0001

   

<0.0001

  <HS

7.3

14.2

6.0

 

5.0

7.0

4.5

 

  HS/some college

52.1

38.9

54.8

 

46.7

34.4

50.1

 

  College

25.3

35.2

23.4

 

30.7

39.7

28.2

 

  Grad school

15.2

11.7

15.9

 

18.9

17.2

17.1

 

 Age group

   

<0.0001

   

<0.0001

  21–49

 

63.6

73.8

60.8

 

  50–64

74.9

69.2

76.1

 

34.9

25.0

37.6

 

  65+

25.1

30.8

23.9

 

1.5

1.3

1.5

 

 Below/near poverty

6.64

15.7

4.8

<0.0001

6.9

10.6

5.9

<0.0001

 Rural

15.0

3.4

17.4

<0.0001

13.5

4.8

15.9

<0.0001

 Insured

 

87.1

92.9

<0.0001

85.9

80.7

87.3

<0.0001

 Married

67.0

76.9

65.0

<0.0001

63.8

67.8

69.2

0.02

  1. All percentages are weighted
  2. P values of less than 0.05 were italicized