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Table 1 Sociodemographic and screening characteristics of survey sample

From: Understanding cervical cancer screening among lesbians: a national survey

Characteristics

Routine screeners

Non-routine screeners

Total

p-valuea

Number (weighted % of total)

644 (62.1%)

362 (37.9%)

1,006

 

Age (years, mean ± SD)

44.7 ± 11.2

42.9 ± 12.3

44.0 ± 11.6

0.10

Race (column %) b

   

0.88

White

77.4%

76.3%

77.0%

 

Black

7.2

8.7

7.8

 

Other

15.4

14.9

15.2

 

College graduate (%)

49.7

38.0

45.3

0.01

Income (%)

    

≤ $24,999

17.2

25.4

20.3

0.02

$25,000 - $49,999

24.7

31.6

27.3

 

$50,000 - $99,999

37.1

29.1

34.1

 

$100,000 or greater

21.0

13.8

18.3

 

Employment status (%)

   

0.04

Employed full time

54.3

41.5

49.4

 

Employed part time

5.2

9.5

6.8

 

Self Employed

7.6

13.1

9.7

 

Unemployed

18.3

19.2

18.6

 

Student

5.7

8.9

6.9

 

Retired

9.0

7.8

8.5

 

Relationship status (%)

   

0.01

Never Married

29.6

43.6

34.9

 

Married/living together

58.9

46.9

54.3

 

Separated/divorced

9.8

8.9

9.5

 

Widowed

1.8

0.6

1.3

 

Census regions (%)

   

0.21

East

26.2

18.5

23.3

 

Midwest

17.5

21.9

19.2

 

South

28.7

32.7

30.2

 

West

27.5

27.0

27.3

 

Insurance type (%)

   

<0.01

Covered by private plan

69.4

51.2

62.5

 

Public assistance

16.6

18.4

17.3

 

Other insurance

4.9

3.0

4.2

 

No health insurance

9.1

27.5

16.1

 

Most recent Pap test (%)

   

--

Less than 12 months

71.3

--

44.8

 

12to 24 months

28.7

2.0

18.8

 

>24 to 36 months

--

28.5

10.6

 

>36 months

--

49.7

18.5

 

Never

--

19.8

7.4

 

History of abnormal Pap (%)

27.7

13.5

23.0

<0.01

Previous CC diagnosis (%)

1.7

0.7

1.3

0.39

Family history of CC (%)

9.1

3.1

6.8

<0.01

  1. SD: standard deviation of individual participants; CC: cervical cancer.
  2. All values and tests, except raw number of participants, are weighted according to survey weights.
  3. aRao-Scott chi-square tests, except age, which uses weighted Student’s t-test.
  4. bAll percentages are column percentages, except first row (Number).