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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2020 Jul 6;126(18):4209–4219. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32895

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the non-Probability Weighted (non-PW) and Probability Weighted (PW) sample

non-PW sample
(probability weight not applied to observations)
PW sample
(probability weight applied to observations)
Pre-expansion Post-expansion p Pre-expansion Post-expansion p
n 6088 6672 1968 2134
Cancer Site 0.53 0.42
 Breast 2017 (33.1) 2130 (31.9) 622 (31.6) 640 (30.0)
 Cervical 359 (5.9) 394 (5.9) 117 (6.0) 134 (6.3)
 Colorectal 1195 (19.6) 1342 (20.1) 385 (19.6) 427 (20.0)
 Lung 2517 (41.3) 2806 (42.1) 844 (42.9) 932 (43.7)
Sex 0.58 0.47
 Female 4147 (68.1) 4513 (67.6) 1334 (67.8) 1432 (67.1)
 Male 1941 (31.9) 2159 (32.4) 633 (32.2) 702 (32.9)
Age at Diagnosis <0.01 <0.01
 30 – 39 413 (6.8) 459 (6.9) 125 (6.3) 148 (6.9)
 40 – 49 1335 (21.9) 1313 (19.7) 424 (21.6) 405 (19.0)
 50 – 59 2914 (47.9) 3197 (47.9) 965 (49.0) 1034 (48.4)
 60 – 64 1426 (23.4) 1703 (25.5) 454 (23.1) 548 (25.7)
Race 0.31 0.09
 White (%) 4662 (76.6) 5104 (76.5) 1351 (68.7) 1456 (68.2)
 Black (%) 1281 (21.0) 1434 (21.5) 575 (29.2) 645 (30.2)
 All Others (%) 145 (2.4) 134 (2.0) 42 (2.1) 33 (1.6)
Ethnicity <0.01 0.01
 Non - Hispanic (%) 5883 (96.6) 6497 (97.4) 1895 (96.3) 2073 (97.2)
 Hispanic 88 (1.4) 103 (1.5) 37 (1.9) 39 (1.8)
 Unknown (%) 117 (1.9) 72 (1.1) 36 (1.8) 22 (1.0)
Marital Status 0.27 0.78
 Married/Partnered (%) 1874 (30.8) 1993 (29.9) 513 (26.1) 552 (25.8)
 All Others (%) 4214 (69.2) 4679 (70.1) 1454 (73.9) 1582 (74.2)
Income as percent of federal poverty level 0.52
 Less than 100 (%) 538 (8.8) 567 (8.5) 379 (19.2) 403 (18.9)
 100 or more (%) 5550 (91.2) 6105 (91.5) 1589 (80.8) 1731 (81.1)
Probability weights 0.34 -
 Mean (SD) 0.32 (0.20) 0.32 (0.20) - -