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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2010;15(0 3):60–77. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2010.522694

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for total sample and by race/ethnicity (weighted percents)

% Total (n=6,809) % NH-White (n=5,207) % NH- Black (n=638) % Hispanic (n=569) % NH-Asian (n=188) % Mixed Race/Other (n=207)
Age
 18-34 30.8 26.5 31.6 50.2 36.3 37.4
 35-49 29.4 28.6 31.1 28.6 39.4 28.8
 50-64 23.6 25.8 23.5 13.6 18.6 22.8
 65-74 8.3 9.5 7.4 4.6 4.0 5.7
 75+ 8.0 9.7 6.3 3.1 1.7 5.3
Gender
 Male 48.1 48.1 40.3 54.0 56.7 41.9
 Female 51.8 51.9 59.7 46.0 43.3 58.1
Education
 < high school 14.0 9.5 19.6 35.1 8.2 14.7
 High school 26.3 25.7 28.5 30.6 17.2 28.7
 Some college 34.9 37.1 34.9 24.6 27.8 40.5
 College graduate 24.8 27.8 17.0 9.7 46.8 16.2
Mode
 Mail 56.0 56.2 64.4 45.2 64.0 51.1
 Phone 44.0 43.8 35.6 54.8 36.0 48.9
Activity level
 Inactive 34.4 31.2 42.9 42.8 39.7 31.5
 <150/week 28.2 29.3 23.8 23.0 33.7 34.6
 150-300 week 20.4 21.8 15.3 17.4 20.2 21.1
 >= 300/week 17.1 17.7 18.0 16.8 6.4 12.9
Trying to lose weight 53.9 55.5 52.0 52.6 36.5 55.2
Cancer survivor 7.2 8.8 5.1 2.8 1.0 7.3
Awareness
PA makes no difference 38.2 36.2 49.6 38.1 38.1 45.8
 PA reduces risk 61.8 63.8 50.4 61.9 61.9 54.2