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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 Feb 19;13(3):101925. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101925

Table 1. Participant Demographics.

Demographic characteristics of the Upper Midwest Knowledge, Attitudes, and Prevention Behaviors (KAB) survey participants, by state of residence (Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), or Wisconsin (WI); United States), compared to 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year census estimates (2014–2018) of recruited counties. Post-stratified weights were calculated based on age and sex by county using 2018 ACS 5-year estimates. Note that post-stratified KAB percentages do not match age and sex census percentages due to lack of survey participants for every joint age and sex stratum for the population.

MI KAB (%) MI post- stratified KAB (%) MI census (%) MN KAB (%) MN post- stratified KAB (%) MN census (%) WI KAB (%) WI post- stratified KAB (%) WI census (%) Total KAB (%) Total post- stratified KAB (%) Total census (%)

Age (n = 2,713)
18–54 40.5 52.1 55.4 48.2 63.8 63.5 48.3 59.7 60.0 45.8 61.8 61.8
≥55 59.5 47.9 44.6 51.8 36.2 36.5 51.7 40.3 40.0 54.2 38.2 38.2
Education (n = 2,683) *
Some college or higher 81.3 81.0 58.6 89.7 91.7 69.6 82.9 85.1 62.0 84.7 88.9 66.2
High school diploma or less 18.7 19.0 41.4 10.3 8.3 30.4 17.1 14.9 38.0 15.3 11.1 33.8
Income (n = 2,194)
≤$100,000** 83.4 82.0 82.4 67.3 62.5 67.0 77.0 73.1 74.4 75.7 67.0 70.6
>$100,000 16.6 18.0 17.6 32.7 37.5 33.0 23.0 26.9 25.6 24.3 33.0 29.4
Sex (n = 2,713)
Female 59.5 51.7 49.6 61.0 53.5 50.3 60.3 54.0 49.9 60.3 53.6 50.1
Male 40.5 48.3 50.4 39.0 46.5 49.7 39.7 46.0 50.1 39.7 46.4 49.9
Ethnicity (n = 2,545)
Hispanic 1.0 1.1 3.7 1.0 1.0 5.1 1.0 0.9 4.3 1.0 1.0 4.7
Non-Hispanic 99.0 98.9 96.3 99.0 99.0 94.9 99.0 99.1 95.7 99.0 99.0 95.3
Race (n = 2,577) ***
White 96.2 95.3 88.0 95.4 93.6 84.7 97.7 97.5 93.2 96.5 95.0 88.2
Black or African American 2.8 3.7 9.8 2.1 2.5 8.2 0.6 0.8 2.6 1.8 2.0 6.0
Asian 1.0 1.1 2.1 2.7 4.5 6.2 1.6 2.0 3.1 1.8 3.5 4.8
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6 1.4 1.9 1.1 0.6 2.1 1.7 1.3 1.8 1.5 0.9 2.0
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
*

Education corresponds to those 25 years of age or older; trade schools included in the “some college or higher” category.

**

Income category was ≤ $100,000 for KAB data and < $99,000 for census data.

***

Participants could select multiple categories on the KAB survey; census data include the percentage of total population in a single category or in combination with one or more other races.