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Published in final edited form as: Res Social Adm Pharm. 2013 May 23;10(1):10.1016/j.sapharm.2013.04.011. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2013.04.011

Table 2.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the non-community pharmacy respondents across racial and ethnic groups, 2009

Characteristics Groups Non-Hispanic Whites (N = 1117; weighted N = 15,902,451) Non-Hispanic Blacks (N = 449; weighted N = 2,343,748) Hispanics (N = 511; weighted N = 2,319,054)



Frequency Weighted Number % Frequency Weighted Number % Frequency Weighted Number %
Age (years)b 50–59 586 8,583,475 54.0 274 1,470,421 62.7 338 1,447,862 62.4
60–69 315 4,268,172 26.8 107 546,637 23.3 128 601,146 25.9
70–79 146 2,060,599 13.0 45 213,987 9.2 29 180,525 7.8
≥80 70 990,206 6.2 23 112,702 4.8 16 89,522 3.9
Gendera Female 488 6,802,140 42.8 220 1,123,009 47.9 224 995,115 42.9
Male 629 9,100,310 57.2 229 1,220,739 52.1 287 1,323,939 57.1
Marital statusa Not married 384 5,304,522 33.4 229 1,118,612 47.7 162 794,732 34.3
Married 733 10,597,929 66.6 220 1,225,136 52.3 349 1,524,322 65.7
Highest degreea,b,c Lower than high school 133 1,602,211 10.1 123 521,261 22.8 271 1,140,352 50.1
High school 538 7,430,926 46.9 217 1,207,268 52.7 163 729,964 32.1
Bachelor 219 3,323,661 21.0 42 253,856 11.1 37 197,019 8.7
Master and higher 140 2,214,072 14.0 29 181,124 7.9 14 99,064 4.4
Other 81 1,267,726 8.0 26 125,556 5.5 17 107,904 4.7
Private health insurancea,b No 357 4,612,249 29.0 206 962,118 41.1 300 1,323,771 57.1
Yes 760 11,290,202 71.0 243 1,381,630 58.9 211 995,284 42.9
Medicarea,b No 754 11,074,775 69.6 335 1,792,127 76.5 431 1,869,151 80.6
Yes 363 4,827,675 30.4 114 551,621 23.5 80 449,903 19.4
Medicaida,b No 1088 15,573,247 97.9 410 2,161,638 92.2 473 2,173,057 93.7
Yes 29 329,203 2.1 39 182,110 78 38 145,998 6.3
Poverty categoriesa,b,d Poor 83 857,628 5.4 86 366,880 15.7 86 388,728 16.8
Near poor 41 449,605 2.8 23 129,778 5.6 25 118,298 5.1
Low income 116 1,669,664 10.5 75 366,535 15.6 98 394,435 17.0
Middle income 340 4,596,467 28.9 132 640,511 27.3 197 828,975 35.7
High income 537 8,329,087 52.4 133 840,045 35.8 105 588,618 25.4
Regiona,b Northeast 193 3,310,333 20.8 83 450,201 19.2 82 353,914 15.3
Midwest 281 3,903,668 24.6 72 402,486 17.2 41 119,622 5.1
South 385 5,155,037 32.4 254 1,284,527 54.8 168 839,719 36.2
West 258 3,533,413 22.2 40 206,534 8.8 220 1,005,799 43.4
Metropolitan Statistical areaa,b No 217 2,888,019 18.2 65 257,455 11.0 42 180,992 7.8
Yes 900 13,014,432 81.8 384 2,086,293 89.0 469 2,138,062 92.2
Self-perceived Health statusa,b,e Excellent 328 4,812,734 30.5 92 512,184 22.1 94 480,426 20.7
Very good 399 5,714,233 36.2 142 756,085 32.7 158 758,942 32.7
Good 273 3,864,237 24.4 154 784,847 33.9 179 725,358 31.3
Fair 79 936,892 5.9 47 234,497 10.1 71 313,277 13.5
Poor 32 474,320 3.0 8 26,326 1.2 9 41,053 1.8
No. of chronic conditions ≤1 529 7,505,643 47.2 291 1,530,845 65.3 375 1,664,263 71.8
2–4 348 4,921,819 30.9 112 565,476 24.1 106 505,134 21.8
≥5 240 3,474,989 21.9 46 247,428 10.6 30 149,657 6.4
a

P < 0.05 for the difference between non-Hispanic Whites (Whites) and non-Hispanic Blacks (Blacks).

b

P < 0.05 for the difference between Whites and Hispanics.

c

Information on Highest degree was missing for 27 non-community pharmacy respondents.

d

Categories of poverty status: Poor, <100% of poverty line; Near Poor, 100– <125% of poverty line; Low income, 125– <200% of poverty line; Middle income, 200– <400% of poverty line; High income, 400% and greater.

e

Information on self-perceived health status was missing for 12 non-community pharmacy respondents.