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. 2012 Dec 27;2:190. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00190

Table 3.

Trends in Recommended screening among working cancer survivors (National health interview survey 1999–2010).

Survey year Average annual sample size
Percent adherent to screening
Average annual% change Regression
Observed N Population estimate 1999 2000 2003 2005 2008 2010 Slope ± SEb Pc
COLORECTAL SCREENINGa
White-collar 480 275,468 n/a 51.3 66.6 67.3 66.0 71.8 5.2 0.014 ± 0.003  < 0.001
Blue-collar 150 83,840 n/a 32.1 47.2 59.4 58.7 63.6 7.9 0.018 ± 0.021 0.004
Service 94 50,454 n/a 48.9 62.0 54.8 57.4 62.3 3.4 0.011 ± 0.006 0.075
MAMMOGRAMa
White-collar 388 208,109 84.1 81.2 78.8 81.7 80.5 77.4 −1.3 −0.003 ± 0.002 0.230
Blue-collar 60 30,142 63.9 58.1 77.1 69.9 68.5 76.3 2.5 0.013 ± 0.006 0.024
Service 268 36,162 88.4 84.0 82.5 64.5 59.3 72.1 −3.3 −0.005 ± 0.006 0.461
CLINICAL BREAST EXAMa
White-collar 419 188,170 88.5 83.0 n/a 75.2 n/a 64.8 −7.9 −0.117 ± 0.002 <0.001
Blue-collar 68 330,507 78.4 63.3 n/a 63.2 n/a 64.0 −4.8 −0.007 ± 0.005 0.201
Service 76 35,832 87.3 71.3 n/a 58.3 n/a 62.6 −8.2 −0.003 ± 0.006 0.662
PAP TESTa
White-collar 415 221,681 91.7 93.6 89.6 88.8 88.0 79.3 −4.7 −0.007 ± 0.002 <0.001
Blue-collar 66 32,245 87.6 93.7 92.6 79.5 76.1 70.1 −4.6 −0.011 ± 0.004 0.01
Service 84 44,096 89.2 96.9 89.4 88.6 80.2 84.0 −2.0 −0.006 ± 0.004 0.18
PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN TESTa
White-collar 152 96,002 78.4 70.0 69.0 71.5 74.8 66.8 −2.3 −0.002 ± 0.004 0.613
Blue-collar 78 46,138 69.8 52.5 81.0 61.3 62.3 59.7 −2.0 −0.006 ± 0.008 0.437
Service 32 17,302 73.2 64.5 61.9 49.7 71.5 64.4 −1.8 0.009 ± 0.007 0.247

aToo few observations in farming sector.

bStandard error of the mean.

cp-value.