. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 2.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2008 Mar;13(2):181–199. doi: 10.1080/10810730701854110

Table 1.

Weighted variable distributions

	Nonmissing n	Mean (SD)
Cancer information seeking in the past week (proportion)	6,369	0.05 (0.22)
AP stories per day in the past week (# stories per day)	6,369	1.40 (0.59)
Interviewed within a week of John Kerry’s prostate cancer surgery (proportion)	6,369	0.02 (0.15)
Age (in years)	6,369	45.2 (17.4)
Female (proportion)	6,369	0.52 (0.50)
White (proportion)	6,068	0.72 (0.45)
Black (proportion)	6,068	0.11 (0.31)
Hispanic (proportion)	6,068	0.12 (0.32)
Other (proportion)	6,068	0.06 (0.24)
Education (in years)	6,139	12.93 (2.58)
Has Internet (proportion)	6,358	0.63 (0.48)
Personally had cancer (proportion)	6,352	0.11 (0.31)
Family history of cancer (proportion)	6,319	0.62 (0.49)
Attention to health news (scale, range 0–12)	6,327	6.21 (3.14)

Note. The table presents weighted mean and standard deviation estimates for all variables included in subsequent multivariate analyses.