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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Mar;18(3):752–759. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0608

Table 2.

Estimated age- and gender-standardized proportions of California residents ages 50 years and older who have received up-to-date CRC screening*

   Up-to-date screening, by endoscopy or FOBT
Ethnic Group 2001 2003 2005 Change, 2001 to 2005 P, difference between 2001 and 2005
All 53% 52% 56% 3% <.001
White (W) 56% 55% 59% 3% <.001
Black (B) 56% 55% 57% 1% .84
Asian (A) 46% 45% 49% 3% .12
Latino (L) 40% 41% 47% 7% .003
P, comparisons among groups P<.001: WA, WL, BA, BL
P<.01: AL
P<.001: WA, WL, BA, BL P<.001: WA, WL, BL.
P<.01: BA
Asian subgroups
  Japanese (J) 57% 55% 59% 2% .78
  Chinese (C) 47% 51% 53% 6% .18
  Filipino (F) 43% 38% 46% 3% .56
  Vietnamese (V) 42% 53% 49% 7% .22
  Korean (K) 39% 34% 29% −10% .04
P, comparisons among groups P<.01: JV, JK
P<.05: JF
P<.001: JK, CK
P<.01: JF, VK
P<.05: CF, FV
P<.001: JK, CK, FK, VK
P<.05: JF
   Up-to-date screening with endoscopy
2001 2003 2005 Change, 2001 to 2005 P, difference between 2001 and 2005
All 43% 44% 48% 5% <.001
White (W) 45% 47% 52% 7% <.001
Black (B) 48% 45% 50% 2% .35
Asian (A) 36% 38% 42% 6% .005
Latino (L) 33% 31% 39% 6% .005
P, comparisons among groups P<.001: WA, WL, BA, BL P<.001: WA, WL, BL
P<.01: BA, AL
P<.001: WA, WL, BL
P<.01: BA
Asian subgroups
  Japanese (J) 49% 49% 53% 4% .50
  Chinese (C) 38% 42% 46% 8% .05
  Filipino (F) 31% 32% 37% 6% .24
  Vietnamese (V) 32% 42% 43% 10% .08
  Korean (K) 30% 31% 28% −2% .64
P, comparisons among groups P<.01: JF, JV, JK
P<.05: JC
P<.01: JF, JK
P<.05: CK
P<.001: JK, CK
P<.01: JF, VK
   Up-to-date screening with FOBT
2001 2003 2005 Change, 2001 to 2005 P, difference between 2001 and 2005
All 23% 19% 20% −3% <.001
White (W) 25% 20% 21% −5% <.001
Black (B) 24% 22% 20% −4% .08
Asian (A) 19% 15% 16% −3% .23
Latino (L) 14% 17% 17% 3% .07
P, comparisons among groups P<.001: WA, WL, BL
P<.01: BA, AL
P<.001: WA, BA
P<.01: WL, BL
P<.01: WA
P<.05: WL
Asian subgroups
  Japanese (J) 25% 19% 19% −6% .24
  Chinese (C) 18% 17% 18% 0% .96
  Filipino(F) 18% 11% 19% 1% .77
  Vietnamese (V) 16% 17% 10% −6% .10
  Korean (K) 14% 7% 2% −12% <.001
P, comparisons among groups P<.05: JV, JK P<.01: JK, CK
P<.05: VK
P<.001: JK, CK, FK
P<.01: VK
P<.05: CV, FV
*

Analyses were conducted using California Health Interview Survey data with survey replicate weights and survey data procedures for proportion estimation. P values are from Wald tests of hypotheses of equality of two proportions. Sample sizes are provided in Table 1.