Table 1.
Sociodemographic Distribution
| Total |
Any asthma |
No asthma |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 56,312) | (n = 7,687) | (n = 48,625) | ||
| Weighted n (%) | 5,178,053 (100%) | 710,534 (13.7%) | 4,467,519 (86.3%) | |
| Gender | <0.001 | |||
| Female | 49.0 | 11.0 | 89.0 | |
| Male | 51.1 | 16.3 | 83.7 | |
| Age group | <0.001 | |||
| 2–4 years of age | 30.0 | 9.7 | 90.3 | |
| 5–6 years | 19.7 | 14.6 | 85.4 | |
| 7–8 years | 19.6 | 15.4 | 84.7 | |
| 9–10 years | 20.5 | 15.4 | 84.6 | |
| 11 years | 10.3 | 17.2 | 82.8 | |
| Race | <0.001 | |||
| White | 41.9 | 13.3 | 86.7 | |
| Latino | 10.7 | 13.9 | 86.1 | |
| African American | 6.6 | 20.6 | 79.5 | |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 34.6 | 12.8 | 87.3 | |
| Other | 6.2 | 14.4 | 85.6 | |
| Body weight | <0.01 | |||
| Missing data | 6.6 | 12.0 | 88.0 | |
| <95th percentile | 80.2 | 13.3 | 86.7 | |
| ≥95th percentile | 13.3 | 17.0 | 83.0 | |
| Parent's education | <0.001 | |||
| Less than 12 years | 21.5 | 11.7 | 88.3 | |
| High School graduate | 22.2 | 14.4 | 85.6 | |
| College graduate | 22.3 | 17.2 | 82.9 | |
| Any graduate school | 34.1 | 12.3 | 87.7 | |
| English language proficiency of parent | <0.001 | |||
| Very well/well | 78.4 | 14.7 | 85.3 | |
| Not well | 14.4 | 10.5 | 89.5 | |
| Not at all | 7.2 | 9.6 | 90.4 | |
| Household income | 0.779 | |||
| 0–99% FPL | 23.8 | 14.2 | 85.8 | |
| 100–199% FPL | 22.4 | 13.9 | 86.1 | |
| 200–299% FPL | 13.9 | 13.9 | 86.1 | |
| 300%+ FPL | 39.9 | 13.3 | 86.7 | |
| Geography | 0.186 | |||
| Urban | 46.3 | 13.5 | 86.5 | |
| Second City | 24.4 | 14.6 | 85.4 | |
| Suburban | 19.0 | 14.0 | 86.0 | |
| Town and Rural | 10.3 | 12.1 | 87.9 | |
| Survey year | 0.377 | |||
| 2001–2002 | 11.3 | 13.2 | 86.8 | |
| 2003–2004 | 11.2 | 14.3 | 85.7 | |
| 2005–2006 | 11.3 | 14.4 | 85.6 | |
| 2007–2008 | 11.5 | 14.1 | 86.0 | |
| 2009–2010 | 11.4 | 12.0 | 88.0 | |
| 2011–2012 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 85.0 | |
| 2013 | 10.7 | 14.8 | 85.2 | |
| 2014 | 10.7 | 13.2 | 86.8 | |
| 2015 | 10.9 | 12.5 | 86.5 |
(%) of children ages 2–11 according to asthma status (CHIS 2001–2015).
Weighted column percentages are displayed in the “Total” column, while weighted row percentages are displayed in the other columns.
FPL, federal poverty level.