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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug;17(8):2036–2043. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0151

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of HIM Study participants by country

Brazil (N = 382)
Mexico (N = 362)
United States (N = 416)
Total (N = 1,160)
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Age
 18–19 12 (3.1) 15 (4.1) 95 (22.8) 122 (10.5)
 20–24 56 (14.7) 51 (14.1) 155 (37.3) 262 (22.6)
 25–29 67 (17.5) 75 (20.7) 43 (10.3) 185 (16.0)
 30–34 75 (19.6) 69 (19.1) 30 (7.2) 174 (15.0)
 35–39 51 (13.4) 66 (18.2) 34 (8.2) 151 (13.0)
 40–44 65 (17.0) 64 (17.7) 26 (6.3) 155 (13.4)
 45–70 56 (14.7) 22 (6.1) 33 (7.9) 111 (9.6)
 Median 34.0 32.9 23.1 30.0
Race
 White 229 (60.6) 13 (3.6) 303 (73.2) 545 (47.3)
 Black 115 (30.4) 1 (1.3) 52 (12.6) 168 (14.6)
 Asian/Pacific Islander 5 (1.4) 0 (0.0) 21 (5.1) 26 (2.3)
 American Indian 22 (5.8) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 22 (1.9)
 Mixed 0 (0.0) 343 (95.0) 37 (8.9) 380 (33.0)
 Unknown 7 (1.9) 4 (1.1) 1 (0.2) 12 (1.0)
Ethnicity
 Hispanic 66 (17.9) 361 (100.0) 52 (12.6) 479 (41.9)
 Non-Hispanic 303 (82.1) 0 (0.0) 362 (87.4) 665 (58.1)
Marital status
 Single, never married 148 (39.3) 91 (25.2) 300 (72.8) 539 (46.9)
 Married 118 (31.3) 208 (57.6) 61 (14.8) 387 (33.6)
 Cohabiting 71 (18.8) 45 (12.5) 16 (3.9) 132 (11.5)
 Divorced/separated/widow 40 (10.6) 17 (4.7) 35 (8.5) 92 (8.0)
Education (y)
 Less than 12 122 (32.3) 128 (35.6) 6 (1.5) 256 (22.3)
 12 144 (38.1) 82 (22.8) 58 (14.1) 284 (24.7)
 13–16 102 (27.0) 135 (37.5) 310 (75.2) 547 (47.6)
 17 or more 10 (2.7) 15 (4.2) 38 (9.2) 63 (5.5)
Lifetime no. of female partners
 None 40 (11.9) 27 (7.7) 29 (7.3) 96 (8.9)
 1 23 (6.9) 22 (6.3) 45 (11.3) 90 (8.3)
 2–9 103 (30.8) 214 (61.0) 171 (42.9) 488 (45.0)
 10–19 63 (18.8) 46 (13.1) 66 (16.5) 175 (16.1)
 20–49 80 (23.9) 34 (9.7) 61 (15.3) 175 (16.1)
 50–1,000 26 (7.8) 8 (2.3) 27 (6.8) 61 (5.6)
Circumcised 57 (14.9) 51 (14.1) 346 (83.2) 454 (39.1)

NOTE: Distribution of all variables examined differed significantly by country (P < 0.0001).