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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: Workplace Health Saf. 2020 Jun 2;68(8):391–401. doi: 10.1177/2165079920909136

Table 1:

Demographics of non-manual labor workers, miners, oil and gas (OGE) workers, and other manual labor workers, 2013–2017 BRFSS, 32 statesa,b

Characteristic Non-manual labor workers Miners OGE workers Other manual labor workers

Unweighted frequency Weighted percentage of sample population (%) 95% CI Unweighted frequency Weighted percentage of sample population (%) 95% CI Unweighted frequency Weighted percentage of sample population (%) 95% CI Unweighted frequency Weighted percentage of sample population (%) 95% CI

SEX        
 Male 150,246 44.8 44.3, 45.2 902 97.6 96.1, 99.0 2,097 97.8 96.9, 98.7 71,480 85.9 85.3, 86.5
 Female 224,745 55.2 54.8, 55.7 39 c 1.0, 3.9 68 2.2 1.3, 3.1 13,503 14.1 13.5, 14.7
EDUCATION            
 < High school (H.S.) 11,624 7.0 6.7, 7.2 57 12.6 7.4, 17.8 267 19.6 15.9, 23.3 9,773 22.0 21.2, 22.8
 Graduated H.S. 72,470 21.3 20.9, 21.6 487 58.6 47.7, 69.5 1,031 45.0 41.0, 48.9 36,748 39.8 39.0, 40.7
 Attended or graduated college or technical school 290,370 71.6 71.2, 72.0 394 28.8 20.6, 36.9 865 35.4 31.6, 39.3 38,285 38.0 37.1, 38.8
AGE (years)            
 18–34 72,957 31.9 31.5, 32.3 202 29.1 20.6, 37.6 657 39.8 35.8, 43.7 19,279 33.4 32.5, 34.3
 35–54 158,097 44.3 43.9, 44.8 408 40.7 30.0, 51.4 933 44.0 40.0, 48.1 37,027 45.9 45.1, 46.8
 ≥55 143,968 23.7 23.4, 24.1 331 30.2 13.6, 46.8 575 16.3 13.9, 18.6 28,684 20.7 20.1, 21.3
RACE/ETHNICITY        
 Non-Hispanic white 295,720 64.2 63.7, 64.6 781 84.0 78.5, 89.4 1,646 73.1 69.6, 76.7 61,860 56.3 55.4, 57.2
 Non-white or Hispanic 74,757 34.6 34.1, 35.1 141 14.3 9.2, 19.4 494 25.7 22.2, 29.2 21,985 42.5 42.5, 41.6
a

Participating states: AK, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IA, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, TN, UT, VT, WA (state-added 2013), WV, WI, WY (state-added 2013)

b

Estimates do not always round to 100% because of rounding errors and missing responses

c

Estimate does not meet BRFSS precision guidelines for reporting