Table 1.
Participant personal, work and health characteristics, hired Latinx child farmworkers in North Carolina, 2018.
| Personal and Work Characteristics | n = 140 n (%) |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Girls | 49 (35.0) |
| Boys | 91 (65.0) |
| Age (years) | |
| 11 | 3 (2.1) |
| 12 | 4 (2.9) |
| 13 | 13 (9.3) |
| 14 | 19 (13.6) |
| 15 | 24 (17.1) |
| 16 | 20 (14.3) |
| 17 | 29 (20.7) |
| 18 | 26 (18.6) |
| 19 | 2 (1.4) |
| Age Groups (years) | |
| 11–15 | 63 (45.0) |
| 16–19 | 77 (55.0) |
| Work/Living Arrangement | |
| Works in farmwork with an adult relative (including parent) 1 | 50 (35.7) |
| Unaccompanied (lives with neither father nor mother) | 7 (5.0) |
| Migrant worker (moves from state-to-state to do farmwork) 1 | 19 (13.6) |
| Crops worked in past week 1,2 | |
| Tobacco | 41 (29.3) |
| Berries | 27 (19.3) |
| Tomatoes | 19 (13.6) |
| Sweet potatoes | 13 (9.3) |
| Green peppers | 5 (3.6) |
| Squash | 4 (2.9) |
| Hot peppers | 6 (4.3) |
| Cucumbers | 5 (3.6) |
| Melons | 4 (2.9) |
| Other | 9 (6.4) |
| Lifestyle 3 | |
| Smoke, chew, or use snuff tobacco | 3 (2.1) |
| Health Services | |
| Has regular medical doctor | 79 (56.4) |
| Had medical exam in past year | 87 (62.1) |
Notes: 1 Fifty-eight children were not working in farmwork during the summer this questionnaire was administered. Thus, they were considered as a “no” response for these questions. 2 Other crops include peas, cotton, green beans, okra, hay, herbs, soybeans. Some children worked in multiple crops. 3 Smoke, chew or snuff tobacco includes participants that responded either “sometimes” or “often”.