Table 3.

Response rates and distribution of respondents and nonrespondents (%s) by selected characteristics of sample households

Characteristic	HINTS 4 Cycle 1				HINTS 4 Cycle 3
	RR	Resp.	Nonresp.	Sig.	RR	Resp.	Nonresp.	Sig.
	Percent
Region
Northeast	37.0	17.9	18.2	***	36.6	19.0	17.9	***
Midwest	42.1	25.1	20.7		40.1	24.7	20.0
South	34.7	34.6	39.1		31.1	33.2	40.0
West	37.9	22.4	22.0		36.2	23.1	22.1
MSA
Metro	36.8	81.2	83.6	*	34.9	81.7	82.8	*
Non-metro	40.8	18.8	16.4		36.6	18.3	17.2
Route Type
Street address	40.4	78.0	68.9	***	37.5	77.0	69.5	***
Other	29.7	22.0	31.1		29.1	23.0	30.5
Below 100 percent poverty
0–25%	41.2	40.1	34.3	***	38.7	44.8	38.6	***
26–50%	38.4	29.2	28.1		37.0	29.4	27.1
51–75%	34.6	19.3	21.8		30.3	16.1	20.1
76–100%	30.2	11.4	15.8		27.1	9.7	14.2
College degree
0–25%	29.9	12.9	18.0	***	27.6	11.0	15.7	***
26–50%	38.3	23.5	22.7		32.4	19.7	22.4
51–75%	35.4	25.0	27.3		37.2	28.4	26.0
76–100%	42.1	38.7	32.0		38.2	40.8	35.9
Hispanic
0–25%	40.9	32.7	28.3	***	38.7	36.9	31.7	***
26–50%	37.5	32.4	32.3		36.4	35.7	33.8
51–75%	37.8	26.0	25.6		32.4	19.8	22.4
76–100%	28.2	9.0	13.7		25.6	7.6	12.0
Black
0–25%	42.7	38.1	30.6	***	40.2	42.5	34.4	***
26–50%	37.5	31.3	31.3		35.5	32.1	31.7
51–75%	33.8	20.9	24.6		29.5	17.4	22.7
76–100%	30.0	9.7	13.5		27.8	7.9	11.2