Table 1.
Characteristics of survey respondents (n = 1,193)
| Gender | |
| Male | 30% |
| Female | 70% |
| Age | |
| 18–29 | 9% |
| 30–39 | 13% |
| 40–49 | 20% |
| 50–64 | 36% |
| 65+ | 23% |
| Education | |
| Less than high school | 8% |
| High school | 20% |
| Some college | 28% |
| College graduate or beyond | 44% |
| Race | |
| White/Caucasian | 76% |
| Black/African American | 16% |
| Asian American | 2% |
| American Indian | 2% |
| Other | 4% |
| Religious affiliation | |
| Protestant | 48% |
| Catholic | 14% |
| Baptist | 12% |
| Mormon | 6% |
| Jewish | 3% |
| Other | 3% |
| None | 9% |
| Household income previous year (USD) | |
| <20,000 | 18% |
| 20,000–39,999 | 22% |
| 40,000–59,999 | 18% |
| 60,000–79,999 | 10% |
| ≥80,000 | 23% |
| Not reported | 9% |
| Have a serious or chronic medical condition | |
| Yes | 61% |
| No | 39% |
| Would not allow a sample to be used for future genetic research under any circumstances | <1%∗ |
∗
This represents the 80 participants not in our sub-sample for the analysis reported in this paper, yielding a sample n = 1,113. A chi-squared test confirmed that there were no significant demographic differences between these two samples.