Table 2.
Descriptive summary of characteristics of racial/ethnic group differences among abnormal screening results
| Race/ethnicity
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| White | Black | Hispanics | Other | p | |
| Individual level characteristics | |||||
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| % Abnormal | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | <.01 |
| Mean miles traveled to clinic | 6.7 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 6.3 | <.01 |
| Mean Age | 52.7 | 53.6 | 51.4 | 52.5 | <.01 |
| HS or More Education | 72.2 | 75.1 | 59.8 | 76.8 | <.01 |
| Mean Household Income | $14,339 | $10,518 | $13,835 | $15,552 | <.01 |
| Mean Household Size | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 2.2 | <.01 |
| Employment | |||||
| % Unemployed | 53.4 | 59.8 | 54.8 | 50.4 | <.01 |
| % Part Time Employed | 29.0 | 21.0 | 14.5 | 25.5 | |
| % Full Time Employed | 17.6 | 19.2 | 30.7 | 24.2 | |
| Marital Status | |||||
| % Never married | 20.5 | 33.2 | 18.0 | 7.4 | |
| % Married | 36.6 | 18.4 | 51.7 | 69.5 | <.01 |
| % Widowed | 10.9 | 12.6 | 8.2 | 9.6 | |
| % Divorced/Separated | 32.1 | 35.8 | 22.0 | 13.5 | |
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| Census tract characteristics | |||||
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| % Poverty | 11.1 | 22.2 | 17.3 | 15.5 | <.01 |
| % Female headed households | 9.8 | 23.0 | 12.1 | 9.9 | <.01 |
| % Unemployed | 6.7 | 26.9 | 9.4 | 7.5 | <.01 |
| % Less than HS educated | 24.1 | 26.9 | 41.1 | 27.0 | <.01 |
| % White | 68.2 | 17.2 | 50.9 | 56.4 | <.01 |
| % Black | 12.3 | 75.9 | 12.0 | 11.1 | <.01 |
| % Hispanic | 22.9 | 7.4 | 54.6 | 20.2 | <.01 |