Table 4.
Bivariate Associations of Migrant Farmworker Personal Characteristics with Camp Sanitation, Eastern North Carolina, 2007.
| Personal Characteristics | Number of People in Camp per Washtub or Washing Machine |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 8 | >8 to 16 | >16 to 30 | Greater than 30 or None in Camp | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Age* | ||||||||
| 18 to 24 years | 40 | 26.8 | 36 | 24.2 | 13 | 8.7 | 60 | 40.3 |
| 25 to 29 years | 89 | 52.4 | 29 | 17.1 | 14 | 8.2 | 38 | 22.4 |
| 30 to 39 years | 147 | 51.6 | 66 | 23.2 | 18 | 6.3 | 54 | 18.9 |
| 40 or more years | 140 | 61.1 | 47 | 20.5 | 10 | 4.4 | 32 | 14.0 |
| Educational attainment | ||||||||
| 0 to 6 years | 228 | 53.8 | 64 | 15.1 | 29 | 6.8 | 103 | 24.3 |
| 7 or more years | 188 | 46.0 | 114 | 27.9 | 26 | 6.4 | 81 | 19.8 |
| Speaks English | ||||||||
| No | 387 | 49.9 | 172 | 22.2 | 45 | 5.8 | 172 | 22.2 |
| Yes | 29 | 50.9 | 6 | 10.5 | 10 | 17.5 | 12 | 21.1 |
| Speaks Indigenous Language | ||||||||
| No | 358 | 54.0 | 172 | 25.9 | 37 | 5.6 | 96 | 14.5 |
| Yes | 58 | 34.1 | 6 | 3.5 | 18 | 10.6 | 88 | 51.8 |
| H2A Status* | ||||||||
| Without H2A visa | 94 | 35.7 | 14 | 5.3 | 33 | 12.5 | 122 | 46.4 |
| With H2A visa | 322 | 56.5 | 164 | 28.8 | 22 | 3.9 | 62 | 10.9 |
| Years in US agriculture* | ||||||||
| 1 year or less | 31 | 27.0 | 13 | 11.3 | 18 | 15.7 | 53 | 46.1 |
| 2 to 7 years | 175 | 46.2 | 102 | 26.9 | 19 | 5.0 | 83 | 21.9 |
| 8 or more years | 209 | 62.4 | 61 | 18.2 | 17 | 5.1 | 48 | 14.3 |
| Safety Concern of Boss | ||||||||
| S/he does as much as possible to make my job safe | 249 | 46.3 | 107 | 19.9 | 45 | 8.4 | 137 | 25.5 |
| S/he could do more to make my job safe | 92 | 56.8 | 42 | 52.9 | 7 | 4.3 | 21 | 13.0 |
| S/he is only interested in doing the job fast and cheaply | 75 | 58.1 | 29 | 22.5 | 3 | 2.3 | 22 | 17.1 |
| Job Control Estimate (Std. Err.) | −0.08 (0.16) | |||||||
| Safety Climate Estimate (Std. Err.) | −0.05 (0.22) | |||||||
Note: Sample size varies due to missing data.
*
p<.05