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Published in final edited form as: Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2016 Jun;10(3):485–491. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2016.79

TABLE 1A.

Distribution of Major Demographic Groups Living in New Jersey by Sandy Evacuation Status and Sandy Impact Levels

				Subpopulation Distribution by Sandy Impact⁴
	Total Population	Evacuated ≥1 Week		Low	Medium	High
Demographic Groups	N (Col %, se)	Row % (se)	P value	Col % (se)	Col % (se)	Col % (se)	P value
US-born non-Hispanic whites	3,947,600 (56.8, 0.7)¹	3.7 (0.3)	Ref	75.0 (1.0)	69.6 (1.4)	86.1 (2.2)	<0.001⁵
US-born non-Hispanic blacks	681,100 (9.8, 0.4)¹	4.6 (1.0)	n.s.	13.4 (0.8)	17.6 (1.2)	4.2 (1.0)
US-born Hispanics	361,400 (5.2, 0.3)¹	4.2 (1.3)	n.s.	6.7 (0.6)	8.9 (1.0)	5.1 (1.2)
All US-born	5,254,200 (75.6, 0.7)	3.9 (0.3)	Ref	76.8 (0.9)	72.1 (1.3)	84.2 (2.0)	<0.001⁶
Foreign-born	1,688,850 (24.3, 0.7)	2.9 (0.4)	n.s.	23.2 (0.9)	27.9 (1.3)	15.8 (2.0)
Recently arrived foreign-born²	312,750 (4.5, 0.3)	2.7 (1.0)	n.s.	5.5 (0.5)	6.4 (0.7)	2.2 (0.8)
Total	6,950,000³	3.7 (0.2)		54.9 (0.7)	25.8 (0.6)	9.7 (0.4)

^1.

Percentages do not add up to 100% because groups other than US-born whites, African-Americans, Hispanics not included as well as missing values.

^2.

Subset of all foreign-born; time of arrival not known for 7.7% of foreign-born.

^3.

Total New Jersey noninstitutionalized adult population in 2014.

^4.

Column percentages for Sandy impact do not add up to 100% because of because groups other than US-born whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics not included as well as missing values.

^5.

P value compares distribution of selected US-born groups across levels of Sandy impact.

^6.

P value compares distribution of US-born versus foreign-born across levels of Sandy impact.