Table 1. Characteristics of Adult Participants (Aged ≥18 y), National Health Interview Survey Alternative Medicine Supplement (N = 85,004), 2002, 2007, and 2012.
| Characteristic | N | Participants, % (SE) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployed (n = 34,661) |
White-Collar Worker (n = 29,418) |
Service Worker (n = 9,242) |
Farm Worker (n = 716) |
Blue-Collar Worker (n = 10,967) |
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| Education level | ||||||
| <High school diploma | 15,076 | 23.19 (0.33) | 3.54 (0.13) | 18.53 (0.57) | 45.34 (2.32) | 21.56 (0.55) |
| High school diploma | 23,278 | 31.54 (0.33) | 18.24 (0.29) | 32.27 (0.68) | 30.85 (1.94) | 42.51 (0.57) |
| >High school diploma | 46,135 | 45.27 (0.42) | 78.22 (0.30) | 49.20 (0.70) | 23.81 (1.67) | 35.93 (0.60) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Hispanic | 14,659 | 12.41 (0.28) | 8.98 (0.23) | 20.27 (0.57) | 40.67 (2.71) | 19.49 (0.52) |
| Non-Hispanic white | 53,099 | 70.26 (0.41) | 75.46 (0.36) | 57.70 (0.67) | 54.01 (2.57) | 65.28 (0.58) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 12,430 | 12.16 (0.27) | 9.58 (0.24) | 16.36 (0.47) | 3.82 (0.42) | 11.48 (0.37) |
| Non-Hispanic Asian | 4,007 | 4.16 (0.15) | 5.37 (0.17) | 4.21 (0.24) | 1.02 (0.36) | 2.77 (0.20) |
| Other | 809 | 1.01 (0.13) | 0.61 (0.05) | 1.47 (0.21) | 0.48 (0.26) | 0.98 (0.13) |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 37,343 | 39.29 (0.36) | 44.08 (0.39) | 41.91 (0.66) | 82.02 (1.35) | 84.88 (0.41) |
| Female | 47,661 | 60.71 (0.36) | 55.92 (0.39) | 58.09 (0.66) | 17.98 (1.35) | 15.12 (0.41) |
| Survey year | ||||||
| 2002 | 29,878 | 30.10 (0.42) | 32.52 (0.47) | 25.45 (0.57) | 54.12 (2.56) | 34.20 (0.65) |
| 2007 | 22,054 | 32.23 (0.46) | 33.65 (0.49) | 35.51 (0.73) | 20.32 (2.31) | 34.38 (0.70) |
| 2012 | 33,072 | 37.67 (0.40) | 33.83 (0.37) | 39.04 (0.74) | 25.57 (2.37) | 31.43 (0.62) |
| Agea | — | 54.06 (0.19) | 41.77 (0.11) | 39.04 (0.21) | 38.98 (0.56) | 40.80 (0.17) |
Abbreviation: —, not applicable.
a
Mean (SE) age was 46 (0.11) years.