Table 4.
Frequency of outdoor organophosphate and indoor pyrethroid use over lifetime by PEG and CGEP participants.
| Organophosphates (outdoor use) N = 248 * | Pyrethroid (indoor use) N = 301 * | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Adult (<25 years) | Adult (25–44 years) | Middle Age (45–64 years) | Senior1(≥65 years) | Young Adult (<25 years) | Adult (25–44 years) | Middle Age (45–64 years) | Senior1(≥65 years) | |||||||||
| Frequency of Use | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) | Freq | (%) |
| Low use (≤1 time/year) | 237 | 95.6 | 195 | 78.9 | 168 | 67.7 | 148 | 77.5 | 248 | 83.5 | 183 | 61.2 | 168 | 55.8 | 95 | 56.5 |
| Moderate use (2–11 times/year) | 10 | 4 | 43 | 17.4 | 72 | 29 | 42 | 22 | 34 | 11.4 | 91 | 30.4 | 107 | 35.5 | 61 | 36.3 |
| High use (1 time/week to 1 time/month) | 1 | 0.4 | 9 | 3.6 | 8 | 3.2 | 1 | 0.5 | 15 | 5 | 25 | 8.4 | 26 | 8.6 | 12 | 7.1 |
| Total | 248 | 100 | 247 | 100 | 248 | 100 | 191 | 100 | 297 | 100 | 299 | 100 | 301 | 100 | 168 | 100 |
*
Missing values in age groups <25year, 25–44 year, 45–64 years are due to not all participants responding for all age groups or responding “don’t recall”;
1
Missing values in age group ≥65 are in part due to not all participants having reached the age of 65 at the time of interview.