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. 2022 Mar 2;65(5):357–370. doi: 10.1002/ajim.23332

Table 1.

Frequency of collected demographic form elements that were completed

Form Element Completed (n) Percent total (n = 821, %) Percent completed (n = 773, %)
Marital data 765 93.2 99.0
Education data 761 92.7 98.5
Race data 759 92.5 98.2
American Indian or Alaskan Native 17 2.1 2.2
Asian 51 6.2 6.6
Black, African, or African American 146 17.8 18.9
Hispanic, Latino, Latina 73 8.9 9.4
Native Hawaiian 5 0.6 0.7
White 510 62.1 66.0
Other selected 16 2.0 2.1
Other filled 14 1.7 1.8
Multiple races selected (excluding Other) 44 5.4 5.7
Multiple races selected (including Other) 53 6.5 6.9
Country data 760 92.6 98.3
Other selected 67 8.2 8.7
Other filled 63 7.7 8.2
Language data 760 92.6 98.3
Other selected 45 5.5 5.8
Other filled 43 5.2 5.6

Note: “Other selected” indicates those who marked the discrete selection of “Other” while “Other filled” indicates those who filled out free‐text entries within form elements.