Table 5.

Age-adjusted incidence rate (per 100,000 person-years, standardized to the 2000 U.S. population), with 95% CI, of head and neck cancers in men and women by Asian ethnicity and neighborhood socioeconomic status in California, 1988–2004.

	Male					Female
	Lower SES†		Higher SES			Lower SES		Higher SES
Ethnicity	Rate	(CI)	Rate	(CI)	p value	Rate	(CI)	Rate	(CI)	p value
Vietnamese	9.6	(7.8–11.5)	4.7	(3.6–6.0)	<.01*	2.5	(1.8–3.3)	1.2	(0.7–1.9)	.01*
Chinese	3.9	(3.4–4.5)	4.2	(3.7–4.7)	.52	1.1	(0.9–1.4)	1.7	(1.4–2.0)	.01*
Japanese	3.8	(3.1–4.6)	3.7	(3.1–4.5)	1.00	1.7	(1.3–2.2)	1.8	(1.4–2.3)	.81
Filipino	4.4	(3.8–5.0)	2.7	(2.3–3.2)	<.01*	2.1	(1.8–2.5)	1.6	(1.3–1.9)	.04*
Korean	7.4	(5.9–9.0)	4.5	(3.5–5.6)	<.01*	1.1	(0.7–1.6)	1.1	(0.7–1.6)	1.00
South Asian	4.0	(2.8–5.4)	6.5	(4.9–8.4)	.02*	2.5	(1.6–3.5)	3.6	(2.4–5.2)	.17

Abbreviations: SES, socioeconomic status; NH, non-Hispanic.

^*Rate for higher SES is significantly different than rate for lower SES (p < .05).

^†See methods for definition of SES.