Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of study subjects stratified by adverse event status (at least one event versus none)
| Factor | Total (% of total) |
Outcome | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of children experiencing any adverse event (% of row) |
Number of children experiencing no adverse event (% of row) |
P† | ||
| n (age <18 years) | 30227* | 974 (3.2) | 29253 (96.8) | |
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 14795 (48.9) | 456 (3.1) | 14339 (96.9) | 0.19 |
| Male | 15432 (51.1) | 518 (3.4) | 14914 (96.6) | |
| Age (years) | ||||
| <6 | 11487 (38.0) | 404 (3.5) | 11083 (96.5) | <0.001 |
| 6–11 | 9631 (31.9) | 344 (3.6) | 9287 (96.4) | |
| 12–18 | 9106 (30.1) | 226 (2.5) | 8880 (97.5) | |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||
| Hispanic/Latino | 1061 (3.5) | 63 (5.9) | 998 (94.1) | <0.001 |
| non-Hispanic White | 25806 (85.4) | 792 (3.1) | 25014 (96.9) | |
| Black | 1895 (6.3) | 85 (4.5) | 1810 (95.5) | |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 1465 (4.8) | 34 (2.3) | 1431 (97.7) | |
| HOUSES | ||||
| Q1 | 7029 (23.3) | 323 (4.6) | 6706 (95.4) | <0.001 |
| Q2 | 6596 (21.8) | 231 (3.5) | 6365 (96.5) | |
| Q3 | 7683 (25.4) | 229 (3.0) | 7454 (97.0) | |
| Q4 | 8919 (29.5) | 191 (2.1) | 8728 (97.9) | |
Adverse events are defined as physical or sexual abuse and accidents or poisonings at home among children in Olmsted County, Minnesota, a mixed rural–urban community, that occurred during the time period April 2004 through March 2009.
HOUSES: HOUsing-based SocioEconomic Status; Q: quartile.
*
Total number of study subjects with a geocoded address.
†
Based on the chi-squared test, which tested the null hypothesis of no association between each factor and the binary outcome (any adverse event; no adverse event).