Table 4.

Among those who reported seeing a healthcare provider in the past 12 months, logistic regression analysis of the risk of having received a skin examination in the past 12 months (pooled data from 2000 and 2005 Cancer control modules of the National Health Interview Survey)

Independent Variables		Multivariate Adjusted Odds Ratios (95% Confidence Intervals)
			< 40 years*	≥40 years*
Age (continuous)	Per year	1.04 (1.032, 1.040)
Sex	Male (reference category)	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Female	0.90 (0.80, 0.99)	1.19 (0.94, 1.51)	0.80 (0.71, 0.90)
Race	White (reference category)	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Black	0.64 (0.52, 0.77)	0.73 (0.53, 1.01)	0.58 (0.46, 0.75)
	Other	0.56 (0.41, 0.75)	0.63 (0.38, 1.03)	0.52 (0.36, 0.75)
Education	< 12 years (reference category)	1.00	1.00	1.00
	= 12 years	1.11 (0.85, 1.45)	1.41 (0,81, 2.47)	1.01 (0.74, 1.39)
	> 12 years	1.90 (1.48, 2.44)	2.43 (1.45, 4.08)	1.70 (1.25, 2.32)
Health insurance	No (reference category)	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Yes	1.49 (1.19, 1.86)	1.50 (1.08, 2.08)	1.46 (1.07, 2.01)
Use sun protection	No (reference category)	1.00		1.00
	Yes	1.79 (1.55, 2.07)	1.76 (1.36, 2.27)	1.82 (1.53, 2.16)
NCHS occupation	White collar (reference category)	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Service workers	0.84 (0.70, 0.99)	0.91 (0.69, 1.20)	0.80 (0.65, 1.00)
	Farm workers	0.52 (0.26, 1.06)	0.55 (0.12, 2.47)	0.50 (0.23, 1.12)
	Blue collar	0.54 (0.44, 0.65)	0.57 (0.39, 0.83)	0.53 (0.42, 0.66)

^*These analyses were performed with Age as a dichotomous variable (i.e. < 40 years vs ≥ 40 years)

Overall pooled sample N = 24,535 (<40 years, Sample N=11,206; ≥ 40 years, Sample N=13,329)