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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2018 Nov 30;37(2):325–332. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.09.043

Table 2.

Sociodemographic characteristics of survey respondents.

N %
Parent gender Female 732 82.0
Male 161 18.0
Race White 726 81.3
Black/African-American 106 11.9
American Indian 27 3.0
Asian 40 1.5
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 3 0.3
Other 25 2.8
Ethnicity Hispanic 109 12.2
Not Hispanic 784 87.8
Number of children under 18 in the household 1 384 43.0
2 313 35.1
3 132 14.8
4 47 5.3
5 or more 17 1.9
Parental health insurance Private insurance plan 443 49.6
Medicare 100 11.2
Medicaid 258 28.9
Veterans health insurance 22 2.4
Other government health care program 69 7.7
No health insurance 62 6.9
Don’t know 9 1.0
Highest level of education completed by parent Less than high school graduate 26 2.9
High school graduate/GED 170 19.0
Some college but no degree 188 21.1
Technical/vocational or Associate’s degree 165 18.5
Bachelor’s degree 237 26.5
Graduate degree 107 12.0
Region of residence Midwest 197 22.1
Northeast 179 20.0
South 366 41.0
West 143 16.0
US Territory 8 0.9
Parent age (years) Mean [standard deviation] 31.3 [6.7]
Median [Q1, Q3] 30 [26, 35]
Child’s age (years) Mean [standard deviation] 2.8 [1.7]
Median [Q1, Q3] 2.8 [1.4, 4.3]