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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2015 Feb 19;138:93–100. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.02.005

Table 1.

Selected pre-intervention characteristics of wood stove homes participating in ARTIS, by sampling visit (N = 96 homes)

Visit 1 (N = 88) Visit 2 (N = 84)
na %a na %a

nb nb
Demographic characteristics
Community, pre-intervention winter years 88 84
 Hamilton, 2008–09 11 13 9 11
 Missoula, 2009–10 20 23 21 25
 Nez Perce, 2009–10 6 7 6 7
 Butte, 2010–11 7 8 8 10
 Fairbanks, 2010–11 8 9 8 10
 western MT, 2011–12 36 41 32 38
Household income $50,000 or more 81 33 41 76 32 42
Caregiver’s education college degree or more 79 34 43 74 34 46
Children in home, mean(sd) 82 2.5 1.3 77 2.5 1.3
Wood, wood stove and usage
method of acquiring wood 79 79
 harvest 50 63 50 63
 purchase 29 37 29 37
wood age 85 83
 < 1 year 31 36 27 33
 1 year 28 33 27 33
 2 years+ 26 31 29 35
woodstove opened, mean(sd) 88 10.8 7.4 83 10.1 6.8
burn intensity 85 80
 none/light 20 24 22 28
 average/heavy 65 76 58 72
Activities in or near the home
use of other source of heating 88 53 60 83 50 60
burning (smoke, incense, candle, etc.) 88 29 33 83 24 29
open door or window 88 29 33 83 32 39
Home characteristics
house 87 61 70 83 61 73
square footage of home, mean(sd) 74 1932 856 70 1968 842
dog 87 68 78 83 65 78
cat 81 42 52 78 44 56
indoor temperature (° Celsius), mean (sd) 76 22.1 2.5 79 21.9 2.7
indoor humidity (%rh), mean (sd) 74 28.5 8.1 79 28.7 8.0
Meteorology
temperature (° Celsius) 87 −3.6 9 81 −2.1 7.7
humidity (%rh) 87 73.2 12.1 81 74.9 11.8
precipitation (inches) 87 0.03 0.05 81 0.02 0.05
wind (miles per hour) 87 3.5 2.6 81 3.3 2.3
% of day spent in home by child, mean(sd) 78 64.8 16.4 76 66 16.0

Abbreviation: sd, standard deviation

a

Numbers refer to the number and percentage of homes with a given characteristic except where otherwise specified.

b

Number of homes with information on a specified characteristic for each visit.