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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med. 2013 Oct 28;15(1):42–50. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.012

Table 1.

Characteristics of the Sample, Stratified by Sleep Duration Category

Sleep Duration Categories

Variable Category Overall Sample Very Short Sleep (<5 Hours) Short Sleep (5-6 Hours) Normal Sleep (7-8 Hours) Long Sleep (≥9 Hours) χ2 p-value
N 100% 6.16% 33.78% 52.68% 7.38%

Age 18-24 11.04% 10.28% 6.93% 10.89% 21.45% <.0001
25-44 36.98% 37.84% 38.18% 37.28% 27.35%
45-64 36.04% 35.88% 41.77% 38.10% 22.50%
65-79 12.02% 12.30% 9.93% 10.56% 18.63%
80+ 3.93% 3.72% 3.20% 3.17% 10.07%

Sex Female 48.37% 48.56% 44.59% 50.66% 38.30% 0.0029

Race/Ethnicity Non-Hispanic White 69.75% 72.69% 57.70% 66.08% 73.00% <.0001
Black/African-American 11.17% 8.16% 22.27% 14.64% 10.22%
Mexican American 8.22% 9.26% 4.40% 7.07% 8.31%
Other Hispanic/Latino 4.95% 4.699% 6.53% 5.07% 5.20%
Asian/Other 5.92% 5.198% 9.11% 7.14% 3.28%

Education Less Than High School 7.12% 7.29% 10.41% 5.52% 11.01% <.0001
Some High School 13.38% 11.69% 20.26% 14.41% 16.86%
High School Graduate 25.93% 24.45% 29.24% 27.79% 26.37%
Some College 28.57% 27.46% 30.46% 30.92% 24.67%
College Graduate 25.01% 29.10% 9.63% 21.37% 21.10%

Insurance Uninsured 19.63% 18.71% 22.20% 20.63% 20.24% <.0001
Public Insurance 15.56% 13.65% 30.18% 14.87% 23.50%
Private Insurance 64.81% 67.64% 47.62% 64.50% 56.26%

Smoking Yes 23.63% 20.83% 39.82% 25.21% 26.31% <.0001

Acculturation English Only 84.36% 83.50% 87.18% 85.40% 84.09% 0.2364
English & Spanish 6.17% 6.55% 5.69% 5.51% 6.60%
Spanish Only 4.93% 5.42% 2.61% 4.31% 5.83%
Other 4.55% 4.54% 4.52% 4.77% 3.48%

Food Security Full 80.98% 83.59% 64.30% 79.58% 79.32% <.0001
Marginal 7.43% 6.92% 14.36% 7.20% 7.29%
Low 7.92% 6.81% 12.46% 8.73% 9.50%
Very Low 3.68% 2.69% 8.88% 4.49% 3.88%

Caffeine Use Yes 89.33% 90.24% 88.49% 88.54% 86.41% 0.1363

Own Home No 29.71% 27.82% 37.80% 30.84% 33.48% 0.0042

Hypertension Subjective 29.72% 27.25% 45.09% 30.93% 32.17% <.0001
Objective 37.85% 35.85% 45.57% 39.40% 40.68% 0.0109

Hyperlipidemia Subjective 29.66% 28.88% 40.22% 28.94% 31.41% 0.0079
Objective 33.20% 32.29% 41.47% 32.43% 38.11% 0.0187

Diabetes Subjective 9.66% 8.70% 16.87% 9.77% 11.48% 0.0005
Objective 27.51% 25.63% 32.48% 28.98% 31.94% 0.0148

Obesity Subjective 30.09% 28.14% 37.91% 33.32% 24.14% 0.0001
Objective 33.37% 31.52% 44.21% 35.88% 27.61% 0.0001