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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Disaster Med. 2011 Jul-Aug;6(4):201–206. doi: 10.5055/ajdm.2011.0059

Table 1.

Percentage of adolescents not evacuating by age and race/ethnicity

Male (n=76)
% (n)
Female (n=42)
% (n)
Age    p = .405    p = .443
   14 15.6% (5) 12.2% (6)
   15 12.9% (12) 6.6% (9)
   16 18.6% (22) 7.1% (11)
   17 12.9% (15) 4.8% (7)
   ≥18 21.2% (22) 9.1% (9)
Race/ethnicity    p = .014    p = .031
   African-American 22.6% (23) 8.6% (12)
   Hispanic 10.2% (20) 3.8% (9)
   White 21.3% (26) 8.6% (14)
   All other non-Hispanic 16.3% (7) 14.6% (7)

Notes:

1. Excluded Asian-American adolescents because there were too few participants for analysis

2. p values show association with evacuation status (e.g., we did not find a difference between evacuating and non-evacuating males with respect to age