Table 2. Demographic and behavioral characteristics by ethnic subgroup among NYC adults, NYC HANES 2004.
| Hispanic subgroups | Asian subgroups | |||||||
| Puerto Rican, (n=178) | Dominican, (n= 168) | Central/South American, (n= 146) | Mexican, (n= 79) | Other Hispanica, (n=71) | Chinese, (n=101) | South Asian, (n=60) | Other Asianb, (n=97) | |
| Age group c,d | ||||||||
| <50 | 129 (65.8) | 126 (68.2) | 111 (71.1) | 76 (96.3) | 48 (59.2) | 67 (66.7) | 50 (79.7) | 73 (73.0) |
| ≥50 | 49 (34.2) | 42 (31.8) | 35 (28.9) | 3 (3.8) | 23 (40.8) | 34 (36.3) | 10 (20.3) | 24 (27.0) |
| Sex c | ||||||||
| Male | 65 (40.5) | 61 (39.1) | 50 (36.8) | 37 (52.8) | 28 (44.7) | 45 (47.3) | 30 (54.7) | 38 (43.5) |
| Female | 113 (59.5) | 107 (60.9) | 96 (63.2) | 42 (47.2) | 43 (55.3) | 56 (52.7) | 30 (45.4) | 59 (56.5) |
| Education c,d,e | ||||||||
| < High school | 70 (42.6) | 77 (48.5) | 64 (44.6) | 51 (61.7) | 22 (36.1) | 46 (45.6) | 20 (32.6) | 12 (12.8) |
| High school | 38 (21.3) | 33 (18.1) | 31 (21.0) | 20 (27.9) | 18 (23.2) | 25 (25.2) | 9 (13.9) | 15 (14.8) |
| > High school | 69 (36.1) | 58 (33.4) | 51 (34.4) | 8 (10.5) | 31 (40.7) | 30 (29.2) | 31 (53.6) | 69 (72.4) |
| Incomec,d,e | ||||||||
| < $20,000 | 69 (39.4) | 86 (53.8) | 70 (48.5) | 58 (76.2) | 24 (36.5) | 46 (51.2) | 21 (35.9) | 21 (24.1) |
| ≥ $20,000 | 105 (60.6) | 78 (46.2) | 75 (51.5) | 19 (23.8) | 44 (63.5) | 48 (48.8) | 37 (64.1) | 72 (75.9) |
| Insurance coverage c,d,e | ||||||||
| Private | 82 (47.2) | 53 (30.4) | 47 (32.2) | 9 (11.4) | 23 (30.1) | 30 (30.0) | 17 (28.2) | 44 (43.8) |
| Medicare/government | 66 (38.4) | 79 (47.3) | 38 (28.5) | 8 (9.0) | 20 (32.3) | 41 (40.8) | 27 (44.3) | 18 (21.6) |
| Uninsured | 27 (14.4) | 36 (22.3) | 61 (39.3) | 62 (79.6) | 28 (37.6) | 29 (29.2) | 16 (27.5) | 33 (34.6) |
| Health Status | ||||||||
| Smoker d | 70 (38.3) | 25 (15.9) | 25 (15.9) | 11 (13.5) | 20 (28.0) | 22 (22.6) | 9 (15.5) | 24 (24.6) |
| Alcohol use, heavy c,d,e | 22 (11.4) | 10 (5.7) | 5 (3.1) | 6 (7.8) | 3 (4.5) | 5 (4.8) | 0 (0) | 4 (3.8) |
| BMI, obese c,d,e | 72 (41.6) | 54 (35.0) | 41 (27.1) | 18 (22.2) | 14 (19.3) | 1 (.7) | 8 (15.2) | 15 (12.5) |
Data are n (%).
a. Other Hispanic includes Cuban, Cuban American, Other Latin American, and Other Hispanic.
b. Other Asian includes Canada, Ghana, Guyana, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Myanmar, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
c. P<.05 across all major race/ethnic groups.
d. P<.05 across Hispanic subgroups.
e. P<.05 across Asian subgroups.