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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2015 Mar 15;50(8):1235–1242. doi: 10.1007/s00127-015-1046-x

Table 1.

Socio-demographic frequencies by reported witnessing status

Sample (n = 4255)a Witnessing (%) No witnessing (%) χ2 p
Sex (n = 4253)
 Female 577 (22.8) 2012 (77.2) 33.52 < 0.0001
 Male 507 (33.4) 1157 (66.6)
Age (n = 4250)
 18–29 428 (28.4) 1173 (71.6) 4.2 0.2393
 30–44 385 (28.8) 1067 (71.2)
 45–59 192 (26.0) 611 (74.0)
 60+ 77 (23.4) 317 (76.6)
Marital status (n = 4202)
 Currently married 543 (28.6) 1540 (71.4) 1.7 0.4298
 Previously married 82 (28.6) 255 (71.4)
 Never Married 446 (26.5) 1336 (73.5)
Education (n = 4176)
 Low (0–2 years) 163 (27.5) 439 (72.5) 8.9 0.0303
 Low-avg (3–7 years) 636 (29.6) 1717 (70.4)
 High-avg (8–12 years) 185 (24.3) 613 (75.7)
 High (13+ years) 83 (23.0) 340 (77.0)
Employment status (n = 2524)
 Employed 350 (31.5) 889 (68.5) 7.9 0.0967
 Unemployed 241 (33.2) 547 (66.8)
 Homemaker 52 (23.2) 192 (76.8)
 Retired 14 (22.7) 62 (77.3)
 Other 46 (26.9) 131 (73.1)
Race (n = 4255)
 White 82 (29.9) 213 (70.1) 8.1 0.0891
 Black 851 (28.6) 2327 (71.4)
 Colored 96 (19.7) 438 (80.3)
 Indian 33 (22.2) 115 (77.8)
 Other 22 (27.6) 78 (72.4)
a

Subsamples may not always equal the total sample size due to missing responses