Table 1.
Characteristic | Entire Affected Area |
High-Damage Areas |
Low-Damage Areas |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Evacuation Rate | N | Evacuation Rate | N | Evacuation Rate | N | |
Age | * | * | ||||
19 to 24 | 88.5 | 523 | 98.9 | 212 | 81.2 | 311 |
25 to 39 | 82.9 | 1,105 | 92.3 | 401 | 77.6 | 704 |
40 to 54 | 85.3 | 1,416 | 95.8 | 397 | 81.1 | 1,019 |
55 and older | 83.3 | 1,473 | 90.5 | 507 | 79.3 | 966 |
Race/Ethnicity | * | |||||
Whitea | 82.9 | 2,766 | 92.6 | 650 | 80.0 | 2,116 |
Blacka | 87.2 | 1,359 | 94.2 | 796 | 75.9 | 563 |
Hispanic | 83.6 | 221 | 94.3 | 33 | 81.8 | 188 |
Othera | 89.0 | 171 | 100.0 | 38 | 86.0 | 133 |
Gender | * | * | * | |||
Female | 87.0 | 2,471 | 94.2 | 872 | 83.0 | 1,599 |
Male | 81.8 | 2,046 | 93.1 | 645 | 76.1 | 1,401 |
Education | * | * | ||||
Less than high school | 85.5 | 746 | 94.3 | 345 | 77.3 | 401 |
High school | 81.8 | 1,526 | 93.8 | 431 | 76.5 | 1,095 |
Some college | 84.6 | 1,274 | 93.2 | 435 | 80.1 | 839 |
College graduate | 88.1 | 971 | 93.6 | 306 | 85.6 | 665 |
Marital Status | * | * | ||||
Not married | 86.5 | 2,212 | 94.0 | 898 | 81.1 | 1,314 |
Married | 82.5 | 2,305 | 93.3 | 619 | 78.5 | 1,686 |
Children Under Age 18 | * | * | ||||
Without children | 84.2 | 3,292 | 93.6 | 1,155 | 78.8 | 2,137 |
With children | 85.4 | 1,225 | 94.1 | 362 | 81.8 | 863 |
Family Income | * | * | * | |||
Less than $15,000 | 90.8 | 680 | 95.3 | 347 | 85.4 | 333 |
$15,000 to $74,999 | 86.0 | 1,938 | 92.8 | 706 | 81.8 | 1,232 |
$75,000 or more | 83.8 | 860 | 90.4 | 227 | 81.6 | 633 |
Not reported | 78.5 | 1,039 | 96.6 | 237 | 72.8 | 802 |
Total | 84.5 | 4,517 | 93.7 | 1,517 | 79.7 | 3,000 |
Note: Sample sizes (N) are the number of person-month observations.
Source: Current Population Survey, October 2005–October 2006.
Non-Hispanic.
Differences in evacuation rates across subgroups for the specified characteristic are statistically significant (p < .05), based on a Pearson chi-square test.