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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 6.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2023 Mar 17;324:115852. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115852

Table 2. Sample US population versus True US population comparison.

26 campaigns with multiple recipients, 29 with “unknown” recipient race, 6 campaigns with unknown recipient age, and 13 campaigns that had multiple recipients were excluded from the table along with non-US campaigns (n = 308) for the US population vs sample population comparison. Source for US population data: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey (2019). A singl e sample two-tailed T-test for means was conducted comparing the real U.S. Black populations to the sample mean for Black recipients (t (19) = 4.41 p = .00001) rather than z statistic due to sample size limitations.

N Percent US
Population
at large (%)
Comparison of
proportion (z
statistic)
p value
(α =
0.05)
Df
Recipient Gender
Man 320 61.7% 49.2% −17.40 .00001 319
Woman 177 34.1% 50.8% −24.3 .00001 176
Recipient Race
White 405 78% 75.3% −298.8 .00001 404
Black 20 3.9% 14.0% 4.41 .00001* 19
Asian (incl. South Asian) 36 6.9% 6.6% −115.7 .00001 35
Other person of color 36 6.9% 7.6% −150.1 .00001 35
Recipient Age
Adult (18 + ) 377 72.6% 77.4 −568.7 .00001 376
Child (under 18) 125 24.1% 22.6% −481.4 .00001 124