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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2017 Nov 15;62(1):14–21. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.006

Table 1.

National survey sample characteristics compared with U.S. Census Bureau data

DTS weighted sample U.S. Census (aged 18+)
Female 51.0% 51.3%
White 68.1% 67.2%
Black or African-American 12.8% 12.8%
Asian 2.1% 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino 15.4% 15.0%
Reside in rural counties 13.5% 14.4%
Median household annual income $60,000–$89,999 $53,889
Unemployment rate 5.0% 4.9%

Notes: The Daily Tracking Survey (DTS) N = 68,539. U.S. Census statistics are all for 2015 and extracted from: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2016_PEPASR5H&prodType=table, accessed on August 1, 2017. The unemployment reference statistic was extracted from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for July–September 2016, available at: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000, accessed on August 1, 2017. The median annual income is presented as a range because the DTS queried on income as a categorical variable; respondents were asked to describe annual income in relationship to ranges rather than to give an actual value.