Table 3.
Economic and physical/environmental exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (DHOS)
| Exposure to the DHOS | N (%) |
| Economic exposure | |
| 1. Lost Household income due to employment disruption/closing of business because of oil spill | 743 (26.1) |
| 2. Hit harder by oil spill compared with others in community | 167 (5.9) |
| 3. Oil spill had somewhat or very negative influence on HH financial situation | 1064 (37.3) |
| Physical/Environmental exposure | |
| 4. Oil spill caused damage to areas fished commercially | 195 (6.8) |
| 5. Extent and frequency of smelling oil | |
| No smell exposure | 1694 (59.4) |
| Any smell exposure | 1035 (36.3) |
| Strength of smell | |
| Extremely | 121 (4.2) |
| Quite | 148 (5.2) |
| Moderately | 424 (14.9) |
| A little strong | 276 (9.7) |
| Not strong | 60 (2.1) |
| Don’t know | 6 (0.2) |
| Frequency | |
| All the time | 183 (6.4) |
| Most of the time | 279 (9.8) |
| Some of the time | 417 (14.6) |
| A little of the time | 141 (4.9) |
| None of the time | 7 (0.2) |
| Don’t know | 8 (0.3) |
| 6. Came into physical contact with oil in other ways (eg, during home, recreation, hunting, fishing or other activities) | 624 (21.9) |
| 7. Oil spill directly affected recreational hunting/fishing/other activities of household | 972 (34.1) |
| 8. Worked on any oil spill clean-up activities | 55 (1.9) |
| 9. Any property lost or damaged due to oil spill or clean-up | 72 (2.5) |