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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Behav. 2012 Nov;36(6):786–796. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.36.6.6

Table 1.

Hours Worked Per Week by Demographic and Other Characteristics of Participants in Project EAT-III (N=2287)

Hours worked per week

0 1–19 20–39 40 >40 P-valuea
n 246 224 534 698 440
Total (%) 2141 11.5 10.5 24.9 32.6 20.5
Gender (%) 0.006
 Male 964 11.1 10.3 22.0 33.1 23.5
 Female 1177 11.8 10.7 27.3 32.2 18.0
Race (%) <0.001
 White 1053 8.5 9.3 25.2 31.1 26.0
 Black/African American 399 18 10.8 26.8 31.1 13.3
 Asian 386 11.9 11.7 20.2 39.1 17.1
 Otherb 279 11.5 12.9 28.0 31.5 16.1
Education (%) <0.001
 Up to HS graduate 889 15.1 13.9 27.9 29.0 14.1
 Voc/associate degree 531 8.5 8.5 31.3 32.8 19.0
 College degree or higher 661 8.5 7.3 16.6 37.5 30.1
Student Status (%) <0.001
 Not a student 1439 9.4 8.0 22.7 35.9 24.0
 Part-time 241 10.8 13.3 28.6 34.0 13.3
 Full-time 322 21.7 18.9 35.7 15.2 8.4
 Graduate student 135 11.1 12.6 14.8 36.3 25.2
Live with spouse/partner (%) <0.001
 Yes 1025 10.0 9.1 21.5 35.8 23.6
 No 1117 12.8 11.7 28.1 29.6 17.7
Live with children (%) 0.007
 Yes 353 15.3 7.1 27.8 32.9 17.0
 No 1787 10.7 11.1 24.4 32.6 21.2
Age (mean) 2093 24.9 24.8 25.2 25.5 25.7 <0.001

Note.

a

Pearson chi-square, except for age comparison (ANOVA)

b

Other category includes individuals identifying as Hispanic, Native American, or Mixed Race.

Percentages are weighted to reflect the probability of responding to the Project EAT-III survey.

Sample sizes of individual analyses vary slightly due to a small degree of missing data.