TABLE 1. SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH-RELATED CHARACTERISTICS OF OLDER (n = 73) AND YOUNGER (n = 114) KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN.

Characteristic	Age Group		χ 2	p value
	older women n (%)	younger women n (%)
Marital status			75.87	0.000
Married	24 (32.9)	106 (93)
Not married	49 (67.1)	8 (7)
Education			39.76	0.000
High school diploma or less	56 (76.7)	37 (32.5)
Higher than high school diploma	11 (15.1)	70 (61.4)
Missing data	6 (8.2)	7 (6.1)
Employment			47.32	0.000
Unemployed	71 (97.3)	56 (49.1)
Employed	2 (2.7)	58 (50.9)
Household income			34.34	0.000
<$55,000	26 (35.6)	15 (13.2)
≥ 55,000	6 (8.2)	59 (51.7)
Missing data	41 (56.2)	40 (35.1)
Years of residence in United States
<20	28 (38.4)	57 (50)	2.43	0.119
≥ 20	45 (61.6)	57 (50)
Proportion of life spent in United States			7.02	0.007
<25%	31 (42.5)	27 (23.7)
≥ 25%	42 (57.5)	87 (76.3)
English-speaking ability			40.57	0.000
None/little	59 (80.8)	41 (36)
Some	13 (17.8)	38 (33.3)
Well/fluent	1 (1.4)	35 (30.7)
Health status			12.83	0.000
Poor/fair	70 (95.9)	86 (75.4)
Good/excellent	3 (4.1)	27 (23.7)
Missing data	0 (0)	1 (0.9)
Health insurance			20.75	0.000
Yes	69 (94.5)	75 (65.8)
No	4 (5.5)	39 (34.2)
Insurance coverage of mammo- gram a			20.19	0.000
Entire cost	54 (78.3)	33 (44)
Some coverage	12 (17.4)	25 (33.3)
No coverage	0 (0)	7 (9.3)
Don’t know	3 (4.3)	10 (13.3)
Usual source of care			17.12	0.002
Yes	65 (89)	65 (57)
No	8 (11)	49 (43)
Routine checkup in preceding 2 years			2.03	0.154
Yes	56 (76.7)	75 (65.8)
No	17 (23.3)	39 (34.2)

Note. Percentages may not equal 100 due to rounding.

^aOlder women, n = 69; younger women, n = 75.