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. 2017 Jun 12;17:566. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4277-9

Table 2.

Worksite Tobacco-Free Policies

No Tobacco-Free Policy (n = 119) Tobacco-Free policy(n = 156) P-value
Population Density 0.0001
 Rural 103 (50%) 103 (50%)
 Urban 16 (23.2%) 53 (76.8%)
Employer size 0.0003
 0-49 58 (56.9%) 44 (43.1%)
 50-249 43 (41.8%) 60 (58.3%)
 250 or more 18 (25.7%) 52 (74.3%)
Employer Type* 0.0125
 Agriculture/Manufacturing 20 (64.5%) 11 (35.5%)
 General Office 40 (59.7%) 27 (40.3%)
 Government 18 (45%) 22 (55%)
 Hospital or Healthcare 20 (38.5%) 32 (61.5%)
 Schools or Education 11 (30.6%) 25 (69.4%)
 “Other” 1 (100%) 0 (0%)
Missing = 48
Gender 0.0474
  > =50% were females 62 (37.1%) 105 (62.9%)
  > =50% were males 44 (50%) 44 (50%)
Missing = 20
Age 0.7233
 1 - 50% of workers who were 50 years and older 82 (40.6%) 120 (59.4%)
 51% or more of workers who were 50 years and older 10 (37%) 17 (63%)
Missing = 47
Ethnicity 0.1858
 Lower than the Kansas Hispanic percentage (11.2%) 79 (40.3%) 117 (59.7%)
 Higher than the Kansas Hispanic percentage (11.2%) 23 (51.1%) 22 (48.9%)
Frequency Missing = 35
Composition of the workforce 0.1099
 1-25% manual labor 56 (39.2%) 87 (60.8%)
 26-50% manual labor 14 (46.7%) 16 (53.3%)
 51-75% manual labor
 76-100% manual labor 22 (61.1%) 14 (38.9%)
Frequency Missing = 24

*p-value calculation was based on the exclusion of other category in the employer type