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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 May;133(1):357–366. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-1960-5

Table 1.

Characteristics of women, San Francisco primary care sites, 2004–2006

Race/ethnicity
Total N = 417a
White African American Latina Asian
N = 119 (28.5%) N = 61 (14.6%) N = 86 (20.6%) N = 151 (36.2%)
Age (years)**
 50–59 79 (66.4%) 38 (62.3%) 41 (47.7%) 107 (70.9%) 265 (63.6%)
 60–69 31 (26.1%) 18 (29.5%) 28 (32.6%) 36 (23.8%) 113 (27.1%)
 70+ 9 (7.6%) 5 (8.2%) 17 (19.8%) 8 (5.3%) 39 (9.4%)
 Mean age [years (std)] 58.6 (6.3%) 58.6 (6.9%) 61.5 (8.2%) 57.6 (5.9%) 58.8 (6.8%)
Marital status***
 Married 72 (61.5%) 12 (20.0%) 30 (34.9%) 115 (76.2%) 229 (55.3%)
 Formerly married 29 (24.8%) 36 (60.0%) 40 (46.5%) 32 (21.2%) 137 (33.1%)
 Never married 16 (13.7%) 12 (20.0%) 16 (18.6%) 4 (2.7%) 48 (11.6%)
Education***
 Less than high school 3 (2.5%) 11(18.0%) 50 (58.1%) 83 (55.0%) 147 (35.3%)
 High school/some college 32 (27.1%) 38 (62.3%) 27 (31.4%) 40 (26.5%) 137 (32.9%)
 College grad and higher 83 (70.3%) 12 (19.7%) 9 (10.5%) 28 (18.5%) 132 (31.7%)
Insurance***
 Public 29 (25.0%) 25 (42.4%) 35 (43.2%) 23 (15.9%) 112 (27.9%)
 Private 83 (71.6%) 27 (45.8%) 27 (33.3%) 56 (38.6%) 193 (48.1%)
 No insurance 4 (3.5%) 7 (11.9%) 19 (23.5%) 66 (45.5%) 96 (23.9%)
Income***
 <$20,000/year 17 (14.3%) 24 (39.3%) 45 (52.3%) 66 (43.7%) 152 (36.5%)
 $20,001–50,000/year 14 (11.7%) 16 (26.2%) 14 (16.3%) 35 (23.2%) 79 (18.9%)
 >$50,000/year 71 (59.7%) 15 (24.6%) 8 (9.3%) 21 (13.9%) 115 (27.6%)
 Missing 17 (14.3%) 6 (9.8%) 19 (22.1%) 29 (19.2%) 71 (17.0%)
Employment***
 Full/part-time 60 (55.6%) 14 (23.3%) 28 (34.2%) 53 (35.6%) 155 (38.9%)
 Not working/retired/disability 48 (44.4%) 46 (76.7%) 54 (65.9%) 96 (64.4%) 244 (61.2%)
Numeracy (number correct)***
 0–2 5 (4.2%) 26 (42.6%) 50 (58.1%) 40 (26.5%) 121 (29.0%)
 3–5 22 (18.5%) 20 (32.8%) 30 (34.9%) 57 (37.8%) 129 (30.9%)
 6–8 92 (77.3%) 15 (24.6%) 6 (7.0%) 54 (35.8%) 167 (40.1%)
a

Total N by employment status, insurance, marital status and education may not add up to 417 because of missing data

*

<0.05;

**

<0.01;

***

<0.001;

****

<0.0001