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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ind Med. 2020 Jul 23;63(10):917–927. doi: 10.1002/ajim.23161

Table 6.

Association of Personal and Work Characteristics with Work Safety Culture Situational Elements: Safety Training, Work Piece-Rate, and Field Sanitation Services, Latinx Child Farmworkers in North Carolina, 2017 (N=202)

Personal and Work Characteristics Safety Training in Current Job
Work Piece-Rate Field Sanitation Services
Tools Machinery Pesticides

n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) Mean (SE)a
Region of North Carolina
 East 48 (30.6)*** 21 (13.4)*** 28 (17.8)*** 40 (25.5)*** 1.89 (0.14)***
 West 34 (75.6) 28 (62.2) 25 (55.6) 28 (62.2) 3.00 (0.26)
Speaks English
 Yes 65 (38.2) 36 (21.2)* 43 (25.3) 51 (30.0)* 2.06 (0.14)
 No 17 (53.1) 13 (40.6) 10 (31.3) 17 (53.1) 2.53 (0.32)
Migrant worker
 Seasonal 54 (32.5)** 24 (14.5)*** 31 (18.7)*** 45 (27.1)*** 1.90 (0.14)***
 Migrant 28 (77.8) 25 (69.4) 22 (61.1) 23 (63.9) 3.25 (0.29)
Works with adult relatives
  Yes 64 (52.9)*** 39 (32.3)** 40 (33.1)** 58 (47.9)*** 2.04 (0.17)
  No 18 (22.2) 10 (12.4) 13 (16.1) 10 (12.4) 2.28 (0.20)
Crops worked in past week
 Tobacco
  Yes 35 (30.2)*** 19 (16.4)** 27 (23.3) 14 (12.1)*** 2.09 (0.17)
  No 47 (54.7) 30 (34.9) 26 (30.2) 54 (62.8) 2.21 (0.20)
 Berries
  Yes 23 (44.2) 10 (19.2) 8 (15.4)* 39 (75.0)*** 1.17 (0.24)***
  No 59 (39.3) 39 (26.0) 45 (30.0) 29 (19.3) 2.47 (0.14)
 Tomatoes
  Yes 24 (72.7)*** 23 (69.7)*** 22 (66.7)*** 21 (63.6)*** 3.24 (0.31)***
  No 58 (34.3) 26 (15.4) 31 (18.3) 47 (27.8) 1.92 (0.14)
Work in last 3 months
 1–2 weeks 7 (17.5) 6 (15.0)* 4 (10.0)* 12 (30.0)* 1.43 (0.28)*
 3–4 weeks 16 (22.5) 15 (21.1) 22 (31.0) 25 (35.2) 2.14 (0.21)
 5–7 weeks 11 (19.6) 13 (23.2) 14 (25.0) 13 (23.2) 2.43 (0.24)
 8–12 weeks 6 (17.1) 15 (42.9) 13 (27.1) 18 (51.4) 2.49 (0.30)
a

Standard error

*

p<.05;

**

p<.01;

***

p<.001