Table 2. Distribution of selected characteristics among respondents aged 18–64 years, by sex.

Characteristics	Men (N = 6,393)		Women (N = 11,076)
	n	% (95 % CI)	n	% (95 % CI)
Age (years)
18–34	1,013	31.0 (28.8–33.2)	1,804	29.9 (28.4–31.4)
35–44	1,197	28.2 (26.0–30.3)	2,149	27.9 (26.4–29.4)
45–54	1,933	22.9 (21.4–24.5)	3,352	23.8 (22.6–24.9)
55–64	2,250	17.9 (16.7–19.1)	3,771	18.5 (17.6–19.3)
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	4,775	76.2 (74.4–78.0)	7,953	74.3 (73.0–75.6)
Non-Hispanic black	578	10.5 (9.1–11.9)	1,410	12.7 (11.6–13.7)
Hispanic	611	7.1 (6.1–8.0)	1,083	7.7 (7.0–8.4)
Others	429	6.2 (5.3–7.2)	630	5.4 (4.6–6.1)
Education level (years)
<12	513	8.4 (7.0–9.8)	835	7.7 (6.8–8.6)
12	1,756	28.4 (26.4–30.5)	2,893	26.3 (24.9–27.6)
>12	4,124	63.2 (61.0–65.4)	7,348	66.0 (64.6–67.5)
Marital status
Married	4,008	64.7 (62.6–66.8)	6,393	63.1 (61.6–64.5)
Divorced, widowed, separated	1,348	14.5 (13.1–15.9)	3,183	20.4 (19.3–21.6)
Never married	1,037	20.8 (18.9–22.7)	1,500	16.5 (15.3–17.7)
Frequency of social support
Rarely/never	604	8.4 (7.3–9.6)	864	7.1 (6.3–7.9)
Sometimes	834	12.2 (10.6–13.7)	1,443	12.0 (10.9–13.0)
Always/usually	4,955	79.4 (77.6–81.2)	8,769	81.0 (79.7–82.2)
Employment status
Unemployed<1 year	335	6.5 (5.2–7.9)	387	4.3 (3.6–4.9)
Unemployed ≥1 year	161	3.0 (2.2–3.8)	293	3.1 (2.5–3.7)
Employed/self-employed	4,508	72.5 (70.4–74.5)	6,611	58.4 (56.9–59.9)
Student/retired/homemaker	787	10.5 (9.3–11.8)	2,737	26.7 (25.3–28.1)
Unable to work	602	7.5 (6.3–8.6)	1,048	7.5 (6.8–8.2)

2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Washington