TABLE 1.

Demographic Characteristics of African American Women, by Mammogram Screening Stage: REACH 2010, Alabama, January 2001–November 2005

	Original Sample (n = 2333)			Participants Surveyed at 2-Year Follow-up: Baseline Data (n = 1513)			Participants Surveyed at 2-Year Follow-up: Follow-up Data (n = 1513)
	Stage 1 (n = 346)	Stage 2 (n = 424)	Stage 3 (n = 1563)	Stage 1 (n = 211)	Stage 2 (n = 247)	Stage 3 (n = 1055)	Stage 1 (n = 61)	Stage 2 (n = 306)	Stage 3 (n = 1146)
High school diploma/GED	45%	30%	35%	48%	30%	35%	43%	39%	35%
Employed	53%	54%	55%	47%	47%	50%	47%	43%	51%
Married	45%	42%	47%	49%	45%	50%	34%	47%	50%
Private insurance/HMO	26%	33%	40%	25%	42%	53%	22%	38%	52%
Medicare/Medicaid	29%	30%	28%	33%	38%	33%	38%	38%	34%

Note. GED = General Educational Development; HMO = health maintenance organization; REACH = Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health. Stage 1 women had no previous mammogram; stage 2 women had a previous mammogram but not in the past year, and stage 3 women had a mammogram in the past year.