Table 2.
Demogranhics of Individuals Participating in Focus Gronns (n = 51)a on Nonsmoker-Onlv Hiring Policies. 2013–2016
| Focus groupb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Participants, no. | 9 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Age range | 36–58 | 26–60 | 32–59 | 29–48 | 29–62 | 27–67 | 24–69 |
| Gender, no. | |||||||
| Women | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Men | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| Race/ethnicity, no. | |||||||
| African American | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Hispanic white | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Multiracial | 1 | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Tobacco user type, no. | |||||||
| Current | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Former | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Never | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Participants had to be 18 or older, able to speak and read English, and a resident in or near a city that was home to an employer that was participating in the study (see Table 1).
Focus group numbers correspond to employer numbers.