Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of survey respondents.
| Invitations | N = 239 | %age |
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| Responses | N = 39 | |
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| Complete | 37 | 94.9% |
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| Partial | 2 | |
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| Sex | ||
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| Female | 31 | 79.5% |
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| Male | 8 | 20.5% |
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| Race / Ethnicity | ||
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| White, European, or European American | 30 | 76.9% |
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| Other (including Hispanic white) | 7 | 17.9% |
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| No response | 2 | |
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| Students | 7 | 17.9% |
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| Experience working with HT victims | ||
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| Career | 17 | 43.6% |
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| Volunteer | 6 | 15.4% |
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| Tenure in victims’ advocacy | ||
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| 1–2 years | 6 | 15.4% |
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| 3–5 years | 8 | 20.5% |
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| 6–10 years | 4 | 10.3% |
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| More than 10 years | 5 | 12.8% |
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| Familiarity with law enforcement use of DNA | Very | 29.0% |
| Somewhat | 63.1% | |
| Not at all | 7.9% | |
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| Familiarity with U.S. law enforcement DNA database CODIS | Very | 23.7% |
| Somewhat | 47.4% | |
| Not at all | 28.9% | |