TABLE 1.
Participant Characteristics (N = 2317): Public Health Response to Emergent Threats Survey, Los Angeles County, CA, October 2004–January 2005
| Variables | % |
| Gender | |
| Men | 46.1 |
| Women | 53.9 |
| Race/Ethnicity | |
| White | 32.2 |
| African American | 9.0 |
| Latino | 31.6 |
| Chinese American | 12.0 |
| Korean American | 3.6 |
| Other Asian American/Pacific Islander | 10.3 |
| American Indian or mixed | 1.3 |
| Mental illness score | |
| No mental illness | 93.1 |
| Probable mental illness | 6.9 |
| Disability status | |
| Not disabled | 80.7 |
| Disabled | 19.3 |
| US citizenship | |
| US citizen | 78.6 |
| Not US citizen | 21.4 |
| Marital status | |
| Married/cohabiting | 56.7 |
| Single, divorced/separated, widowed | 43.3 |
| Education level | |
| Some college or more | 64.3 |
| High school or less | 35.7 |
| Household annual income, $ | |
| < 20 000 | 25.2 |
| 20 000–39 999 | 27.8 |
| 40 000–75 000 | 25.0 |
| > 75 000 | 22.0 |