Table 1.
Sample demographic characteristics (n=20 297)
| n | Proportion (%) | |
| Fear (afraid to walk at night in neighbourhood) | ||
| No | 11 758 | 57.9 |
| Yes | 8539 | 42.1 |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 8879 | 43.7 |
| Female | 11 419 | 56.3 |
| Race | ||
| White | 16 426 | 80.9 |
| Black | 3044 | 15.0 |
| Other | 827 | 4.1 |
| Education | ||
| Less than high school | 4410 | 21.7 |
| High school | 10 694 | 52.7 |
| Junior college | 1105 | 5.4 |
| Bachelor degree | 2789 | 13.7 |
| Graduate degree | 1299 | 6.4 |
| Religion | ||
| Protestant | 12 456 | 61.4 |
| Catholic | 4904 | 24.2 |
| Jewish | 381 | 1.9 |
| Other religion | 639 | 3.1 |
| Eastern | 51 | 0.3 |
| No religion | 1866 | 9.2 |
| Age, years | ||
| <20 | 326 | 1.6 |
| 20–30 | 4046 | 19.9 |
| 31–40 | 4699 | 23.2 |
| 41–50 | 3707 | 18.3 |
| 51–60 | 2680 | 13.2 |
| 61–70 | 2347 | 11.6 |
| 71–80 | 1725 | 8.5 |
| >80 | 767 | 3.8 |
| Household income | ||
| Low | 3392 | 16.6 |
| Medium | 3753 | 18.4 |
| High | 9298 | 45.5 |
| Missing | 3976 | 19.5 |
| Marital status | ||
| Married | 10 506 | 51.8 |
| Divorced | 2674 | 13.2 |
| Separated | 730 | 3.6 |
| Widow | 2128 | 10.5 |
| Single | 4259 | 21.0 |
| Region | ||
| New England | 975 | 4.8 |
| Mid-Atlantic | 2929 | 14.4 |
| East North Central | 3695 | 18.2 |
| West North Central | 1631 | 8.0 |
| South Atlantic | 3782 | 18.6 |
| East South Central | 1561 | 7.7 |
| West South Central | 1864 | 9.2 |
| Mountain | 1228 | 6.1 |
| Pacific | 2632 | 13.0 |
| Setting | ||
| Urban | 12 587 | 62.0 |
| Suburban | 5149 | 25.4 |
| Rural | 2561 | 12.6 |
| Cohort | ||
| 1980s | 9356 | 46.1 |
| 1990s | 10 941 | 53.9 |