Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of all participants in the MICASA study and those who also participated in the Home Pesticide Study assessed on the MICASA baseline interview, 2006–2007.
| All baseline participants | Home pesticide participants |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | Male | Female | Male | Female |
| Age range | ||||
| 18–30 | 111 (25.5) | 130 (29.6) | 23 (44.2) | 27 (49.1) |
| 31–40 | 145 (33.3) | 168 (38.2) | 21 (40.4) | 25 (45.5) |
| 41–45 | 64 (14.7) | 63 (14.3) | 6 (11.5) | 3 (5.4) |
| 46+ | 115 (26.5) | 79 (17.9) | 2 (3.9) | 0 (0.0) |
| Education | ||||
| No school | 18 (4.6) | 16 (4.1) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (6.4) |
| ≤6th grade education | 252 (64.1) | 212 (54.6) | 31 (67.4) | 17 (36.2) |
| >6th grade education | 123 (31.3) | 160 (41.3) | 15 (32.6) | 27 (57.4) |
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 413 (95.2) | 411 (93.4) | 55 (100) | 55 (100) |
| Divorced/separated/widow | 4 (0.9) | 15 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Single | 17 (3.9) | 14 (3.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Country of birth | ||||
| United States | 17 (3.9) | 23 (5.2) | 1 (1.9) | 1 (1.8) |
| Mexico | 279 (64.1) | 296 (67.3) | 34 (65.4) | 37 (67.3) |
| El Salvador | 126 (29.0) | 107 (24.3) | 16 (30.8) | 17 (30.9) |
| Honduras/Nicaragua/Guatemala | 13 (3.0) | 14 (3.2) | 1 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) |