Table 2.

Housing Characteristics and Parental Home Safety Practices in Homes With at Least One Child, American Housing Survey,⁶⁹ 2011

	Rural		Urban		P val
	%	SE	%	SE
Housing quality
Household was without running water for 6 hours or more at least once in past 3 months	5.2	0.5	4.1	0.2	.0001
Reported use of kerosene space heater during winter months	2.8	0.3	1.2	0.1	< .0001
No working carbon monoxide detector inside the home	57.7	1.1	52.0	0.4	< .0001
Home safety practices
A member of the household smokes inside the house	15.3	0.7	8.7	0.2	< .0010
Some or all chemicals, pesticides, cleaning supplies and medicines are not stored out of the reach of young children	18.7	1.1	19.5	0.5	.7689
Some or all outlets lack child tamper-resistant outlet covers	67.7	1.5	66.9	0.6	.9643

Source: American Housing Survey; Authors’ analysis