TABLE 3.
Proportion (N = 2317) Reporting Worrying About Terrorism Attack and Avoidance Behavior Because of Terrorism, by Sample Characteristics: Public Health Response to Emergent Threats Survey, Los Angeles County, CA, October 2004–January 2005
| Worrying About Terrorist Attack |
Avoiding Because of Terrorism Concerns |
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| Characteristics | Very Often/Often, % | Sometimes/Rarely, % | Never, % | P | Very Often/Often, % | Sometimes/Rarely, % | Never, % | P |
| Total | 17.4 | 66.2 | 16.4 | 5.1 | 37.1 | 57.8 | ||
| Gender | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Men | 16.9 | 63.5 | 19.7 | 6.1 | 32.1 | 61.9 | ||
| Women | 17.9 | 68.5 | 13.6 | 4.2 | 41.4 | 54.3 | ||
| Race/Ethnicity | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| White | 14.1 | 66.1 | 19.8 | 1.1 | 28.3 | 70.6 | ||
| African American | 16.8 | 61.1 | 22.1 | 6.7 | 29.3 | 63.9 | ||
| Latino | 26.1 | 61.7 | 12.3 | 7.9 | 44.2 | 47.9 | ||
| Chinese American | 10.4 | 72.7 | 16.9 | 2.5 | 43.9 | 53.6 | ||
| Korean American | 6.0 | 89.2 | 4.8 | 13.3 | 48.2 | 38.6 | ||
| Other Asian American/Pacific Islander | 14.5 | 68.8 | 16.7 | 7.4 | 37.9 | 54.7 | ||
| Mental illness score | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| No mental illness | 16.0 | 67.2 | 16.7 | 4.2 | 36.0 | 59.8 | ||
| Probable mental illness | 36.5 | 51.6 | 12.0 | 17.0 | 52.2 | 30.8 | ||
| Disability status | <.05 | <.01 | ||||||
| Not disabled | 16.7 | 66.2 | 17.1 | 4.2 | 36.8 | 59.0 | ||
| Disabled | 20.6 | 66.0 | 13.4 | 8.7 | 38.5 | 52.8 | ||
| US citizenship | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| US citizen | 15.2 | 67.0 | 17.9 | 3.7 | 33.6 | 62.7 | ||
| Not US citizen | 25.9 | 63.2 | 10.9 | 10.1 | 50.1 | 39.8 | ||
| Marital status | <.05 | <.001 | ||||||
| Married/cohabiting | 18.9 | 66.3 | 14.8 | 5.5 | 40.4 | 54.1 | ||
| Not currently married | 15.6 | 66.0 | 18.4 | 4.6 | 32.8 | 62.6 | ||
| Education level | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Some college | 13.6 | 69.5 | 16.9 | 3.8 | 33.1 | 63.1 | ||
| High school or less | 24.4 | 60.1 | 15.5 | 7.5 | 44.3 | 48.2 | ||
| Household annual income, $ | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| < 20 000 | 25.2 | 60.6 | 14.2 | 8.9 | 42.3 | 48.8 | ||
| 20 000–39 999 | 17.8 | 65.1 | 17.1 | 6.2 | 38.8 | 55.0 | ||
| 40 000–75 000 | 14.2 | 68.7 | 17.1 | 2.9 | 32.3 | 64.8 | ||
| > 75 000 | 11.8 | 70.9 | 17.3 | 1.8 | 34.6 | 63.7 | ||
| Current HSAS level | <.001 | <.05 | ||||||
| Yellow level | 15.9 | 70.1 | 14.0 | 3.4 | 36.2 | 60.5 | ||
| Red/orange level | 23.4 | 60.6 | 16.0 | 6.9 | 39.4 | 53.7 | ||
| Blue/green level | 17.5 | 66.0 | 16.5 | 6.3 | 37.9 | 55.8 | ||
| Don't know | 15.3 | 64.6 | 20.1 | 5.7 | 36.5 | 57.7 | ||
Note. HSAS = Homeland Security Advisory System.
P value for χ2 test for group differences.