. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 27.

Published in final edited form as: Perspect Public Health. 2016 Mar 3;136(6):345–352. doi: 10.1177/1757913916630341

Table 4.

Analysis of ‘Interest to learn more about epigenetics’ by age, race and gender

Category	N	Mean	Se
Age^a (years)
14–19	273	3.2	.06
20–24	118	3.1	.10
25–44	114	3.7	.11
45–54	91	3.8	.11
55+	129	3.8	.11
Race^a
White	506	3.3	.05
AA + Other	95	3.7	.11
Missing	129	3.4	.12
Gender^a
Male	79	3.1	.13
Female	635	3.4	.04
All participants	729	3.4	.04

SE: standard error; N: number of participants; AA: African American.

Interest was reported on an increasing scale from 1 to 5.

Interest was not reported by one participant.

Means differed significantly across age, race and gender groups (p = .001).