Table 1.
Characteristics of participants in two Amazon Mechanical Turk message testing samples of young adults, Spring 2020
| Phase 1 (n = 200) |
Phase 2a (n = 769) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |
| Age group | ||||
| 18-20 | 72 | 36.0 | 251 | 32.6 |
| 21-24 | 128 | 64.0 | 518 | 67.4 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 139 | 69.5 | 536 | 69.7 |
| Female | 61 | 30.5 | 233 | 30.3 |
| Sexual identity | ||||
| Heterosexual | 151 | 75.5 | 584 | 75.9 |
| LGBQ | 46 | 23.0 | 176 | 22.9 |
| Questioning/other | 3 | 1.5 | 9 | 1.2 |
| Race | ||||
| White | 120 | 60.0 | 480 | 62.4 |
| Asian | 46 | 23.0 | 122 | 15.9 |
| Black or African American | 23 | 11.5 | 124 | 16.1 |
| Other race/multiple races | 11 | 5.5 | 43 | 5.6 |
| Hispanic ethnicity | ||||
| No | 141 | 70.5 | 557 | 72.4 |
| Yes | 59 | 29.5 | 212 | 27.6 |
| Highest level of education completed | ||||
| Less than high school | 21 | 10.5 | 39 | 5.1 |
| High school/GED | 28 | 14.0 | 118 | 15.3 |
| Some college/Associate's degree | 50 | 25.0 | 223 | 29.0 |
| Bachelor's/Advanced degree | 101 | 50.5 | 389 | 50.6 |
| Subjective financial status | ||||
| Live comfortably | 75 | 37.5 | 286 | 37.2 |
| Meet needs with a little left | 72 | 36.0 | 315 | 41.0 |
| Just meet basic expenses | 49 | 24.5 | 160 | 20.8 |
| Don't meet basic expenses | 4 | 2.0 | 8 | 1.0 |
| Use of tobacco products, past 30 days | ||||
| None | 24 | 12.0 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Other tobacco products only | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.1 |
| EVPs | 19 | 9.5 | 5 | 0.7 |
| Cigarettes | 47 | 23.5 | 277 | 36.0 |
| Cigarettes & EVPs | 109 | 54.5 | 485 | 63.1 |
| Last substance vaped (among ever vapers) | ||||
| Nicotine | 82 | 52.9 | 313 | 51.5 |
| Marijuana or hash oil | 40 | 25.8 | 126 | 20.7 |
| Just flavoring | 33 | 21.3 | 143 | 23.5 |
| Other | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Don't Know | 0 | 0.0 | 24 | 3.9 |
a
n = 59 respondents participated in both Phase 1 and Phase 2