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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 29.
Published in final edited form as: Nicotine Tob Res. 2008 Mar;10(3):463–470. doi: 10.1080/14622200801901922

TABLE 1.

DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES FOR TOTAL SAMPLE BY AGE GROUP

Age <50 Age 50+ p-value
x̄ age=38.0 yrs (SD=7.3) x̄ age=56.7 yrs (SD=5.7)
N (%) N (%)
Number of participants 349 (43.1) 461 (56.9)
Gender (Female) 131 (37.5) 190 ( 41.2) .2891
Ethnicity (Non-Hispanic Caucasian versus all other) 244 (70.3) 346 (75.7) .0865
Marital Status <.0001
 Single / Never Married 156 (45.1) 81 (17.8)
 Separated / Divorced / Widowed 63 (18.2) 180 (39.6)
 Married / Live with Partner 127 (36.7) 194 (42.6)
Educational Level Achieved .0020
 High School Graduate or Less 57 (16.6) 55 (12.1)
 Some College 132 (38.4) 165 (36.3)
 College Graduate 113 (32.9) 134 (29.5)
 Some Graduate School 42 (12.2) 100 (22.0)
Employment Status <.0001
 Employed 252 (73.0) 301 (66.9)
 Unemployed 58 (16.8) 42 (9.3)
 Retired 4 ( 1.2) 98 (21.8)
 Homemaker/Not otherwise employed 8 (2.3) 4 (.9)
 Student 23 (6.7) 5 (1.1)