TABLE 1.
Selected Demographic Characteristics, by Racial/Ethnic Group: Hawaii Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2003
| White, % | Japanese, % | Filipino, % | Native Hawaiian, % | χ2 (df ) | P | |
| Gender | 4.79 (3) | .188 | ||||
| Girl | 533 (53.4) | 528 (48.9) | 847 (49.9) | 583 (49.9) | ||
| Boy | 465 (46.6) | 551 (51.1) | 849 (50.1) | 586 (50.1) | ||
| Age,a y | 51.42 (18) | <.001 | ||||
| ≤ 12 | 4 (0.4) | 4 (0.4) | 4 (0.2) | 2 (0.2) | ||
| 13 | 22 (2.2) | 39 (3.6) | 73 (4.3) | 26 (2.2) | ||
| 14 | 230 (22.9) | 252 (23.4) | 405 (23.9) | 264 (22.6) | ||
| 15 | 277 (27.6) | 296 (27.4) | 423 (24.9) | 344 (29.4) | ||
| 16 | 247 (24.6) | 251 (23.3) | 391 (23.1) | 286 (24.4) | ||
| 17 | 195 (19.4) | 226 (20.9) | 330 (19.5) | 227 (19.4) | ||
| ≥ 18 | 29 (2.9) | 11 (1.0) | 70 (4.1) | 21 (1.8) | ||
| Grade level | 22.98 (9) | <.01 | ||||
| 9 | 273 (27.5) | 268 (24.9) | 508 (30.2) | 285 (24.5) | ||
| 10 | 267 (27.0) | 295 (27.4) | 453 (26.9) | 332 (28.6) | ||
| 11 | 258 (26.1) | 252 (23.4) | 376 (22.4) | 292 (25.1) | ||
| 12 | 192 (19.4) | 262 (24.3) | 344 (20.5) | 253 (21.8) | ||
| Academic performance | 253.14 (12) | <.001 | ||||
| Mostly A's | 370 (39.8) | 468 (45.8) | 495 (32.9) | 192 (18.6) | ||
| Mostly B's | 340 (36.6) | 356 (34.9) | 548 (36.4) | 381 (37.0) | ||
| Mostly C's | 179 (19.2) | 167 (16.4) | 365 (24.3) | 369 (35.8) | ||
| Mostly D's | 25 (2.7) | 24 (2.4) | 75 (5.0) | 68 (6.6) | ||
| Mostly F's | 16 (1.7) | 6 (0.6) | 22 (1.5) | 21 (2.0) |
Note. Other demographic information, such as school district, was removed from the dataset by the Hawaii State Department of Education and was not available. Numbers and percentages may not sum to total because of non-responses.
a
Mean age across all racial/ethnic groups was 15.4 years.