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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Pediatr. 2021 Apr 24;21(7):1161–1170. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2021.04.012

Table 2.

Survey Participant Demographic Characteristics

Full Sample Firearm Owners Non-Firearm Owners
Program Name Survey Participants
 N 337 151 186
 Mean Age (SD), years 37.50 (7.82) 36.87 (8.29) 38.01 (7.40)
 Gender
  Female 67% 68% 66%
  Male 33% 32% 34%
 Race
  American Indian or Alaska Native 1% 1% 0.5%
  Asian 6% 3% 8%
  Black or African American 7% 7% 8%
  Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0.3% 0% 0.5%
  White 81% 85% 79%
  Other 2% 3% 2%
  Multiple 2% 1% 3%
 Ethnicity
  Non-Hispanic/Latino 93% 92% 95%
  Hispanic/Latino 7% 8% 5%
 Number of Children, mean (SD) 1.89 (1.05) 1.96 (1.09) 1.83 (1.02)
 Number of Firearms, mean (SD) N/A 2.79 (2.68) N/A
Program Logo Survey Participants
 N 337 149 188
 Mean Age (SD), years 37.71 (7.78) 37.03 (8.05) 38.25 (7.53)
 Gender
  Female 62% 60% 63%
  Male 38% 40% 37%
 Race
  American Indian or Alaska Native 1% 1% 2%
  Asian 10% 7% 13%
  Black or African American 9% 7% 10%
  Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 1% 1% 0.5%
  White 77% 82% 73%
  Other 1% 1% 0.5%
  Multiple 2% 2% 2%
 Ethnicity
  Non-Hispanic/Latino 93% 93% 94%
  Hispanic/Latino 7% 7% 7%
 Number of Children 1.85 (.97) 1.87 (1.02) 1.83 (.94)
 Number of Firearms N/A 2.54 (2.45) N/A

Note. Number of children can include those > 18. Number of guns included all guns in the home (regardless of who owned them). There were no significant differences on these demographic variables between firearm owners and non-owners. Some percentage totals do not sum to 100% due to rounding.