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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: Nicotine Tob Res. 2008 Jun;10(6):1075–1084. doi: 10.1080/14622200802087572

Table 3.

Demographics characteristics of Pilot Test respondents, by language group

Demographic
characteristic
English
(n=125)
Spanish
(n=51)
Mandarin
(n=57)
Cantonese
(n=67)
Korean
(n=66)
Vietnamese
(n=52)
Age*
  18 to 30 20.0% (25) 5.9% (3) 5.3% (3) 3.0% (2) 10.6% (7) 1.9% (1)
  31 to 50 40.8% (51) 29.4% (15) 43.8% (25) 38.8% (26) 34.8% (23) 53.9% (28)
  51 or older 25.6% (32) 58.8% (30) 50.9% (29) 58.2% (39) 53.1% (35) 44.2% (23)
  Missing 13.6% (17) 5.9% (3) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 1.5% (1) 0.0% (0)
Gender*
  Male 58.4% (73) 56.9% (29) 93.0% (53) 92.5% (62) 89.4% (59) 94.2% (49)
  Female 34.4% (43) 39.2% (20) 7.0% (4) 7.5% (5) 10.6% (7) 5.8% (3)
  Missing 7.2% (9) 3.9% (2) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0)
Smoker type
  Every day 73.6% (92) 70.6% (36) 75.4% (43) 71.6% (48) 81.8% (56) 82.7% (43)
  Some days 11.2% (14) 17.7% (9) 15.8% (9) 13.4% (9) 9.1% (6) 11.5% (6)
  Former 15.2% (19) 11.8% (6) 8.8% (5) 14.9% (10) 9.1% (6) 5.8% (3)
Years in the U.S.*
  10 years or less 8.8% (11) 3.9% (2) 33.3% (19) 17.9% (12) 13.6% (9) 25.0% (13)
  More than 10 years 27.2% (34) 70.6% (36) 66.7% (38) 82.1% (55) 84.9% (56) 73.1% (38)
  Entire life 64.0% (80) 25.5% (13) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 1.5% (1) 0.0% (0)
  Missing 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 1.9% (1)
Education level*
  Less than high school 12.8% (16) 50.9% (26) 22.8% (13) 41.8% (28) 4.6% (3) 27.0% (14)
  High school graduate 32.8% (41) 27.5% (14) 26.3% (15) 40.3% (27) 25.8% (17) 38.5% (20)
  More than high school 54.4% (68) 21.6% (11) 50.9% (29) 17.9% (12) 65.2% (43) 32.6% (17)
  Missing 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 4.5% (3) 1.9% (1)
*

Distribution differs significantly across language groups at p<.05 level, by Chi-square test. All statistical tests were restricted to substantive (non-missing) categories, and categories were pooled when necessary to obtain cell sizes adequate for the conduct of statistical testing.