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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 25.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2013 Sep 10;126:192–203. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.08.005

Table 2.

Outdoor, indoor and personal VOC concentrations in RIOPA (µg m3).

voc Outdoor (n = 540)
Indoor (n = 539)
Personal (n = 544)
Mean SD 50th 95th Mean SD 50th 95th Mean SD 50th 95th
Benzene 2.13 2.02 1.68 5.13 3.54 5.22 2.19 10.20 3.64 5.31 2.39 10.73
Toluene 6.78 6.48 3.56 18.93 15.26 24.74 10.39 39.55 19.12 37.31 12.42 50.10
Ethylbenzene 1.22 1.15 0.91 2.99 2.55 4.80 1.47 7.77 2.78 5.13 1.68 7.45
m,p-Xylene 3.47 3.67 2.42 9.98 7.39 16.07 4.05 22.49 8.07 15.49 4.42 22.60
o-Xylene 1.40 3.63 0.96 3.22 2.49 4.84 1.47 7.44 2.87 5.59 1.72 7.92
MTBE 8.13 10.08 5.32 22.32 11.96 27.63 6.02 36.14 14.77 42.67 7.14 42.05
Styrene 0.49 0.60 0.42 1.19 1.48 4.29 0.42 5.12 1.55 4.31 0.42 5.32
1,4-DCB 2.09 17.25 0.46 3.59 69.88 307.48 1.40 334.28 56.83 229.37 1.88 304.56
TCE 0.28 0.29 0.22 0.80 0.99 7.29 0.22 1.74 1.44 10.74 0.22 2.37
PERC 0.95 1.32 0.61 3.11 1.85 4.53 0.82 6.03 7.17 112.35 0.89 6.82
Chloroform 0.32 0.99 0.21 0.75 1.86 2.97 0.94 5.97 4.25 52.49 1.04 6.36
CTC 0.66 0.21 0.64 0.99 0.71 0.99 0.62 1.11 0.80 2.44 0.62 1.06
d-Limonene 1.90 6.22 0.64 5.77 31.59 108.47 9.95 103.05 41.14 238.90 11.77 112.15
α-Pinene 1.24 3.82 1.02 1.80 7.14 14.76 2.67 26.83 6.85 16.25 2.88 22.48
β-Pinene 0.86 0.96 0.51 1.10 4.95 11.08 1.27 20.77 5.53 13.07 1.52 21.46

SD, standard deviation; 50th, the 50th percentile; 95th, the 95th percentile; MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether; 1,4-DCB, 1,4-dichlorobenzene; TCE, trichloroethylene; PERC, tetrachloroethene; CTC, carbon tetrachloride.