From: A national survey of ambient air pollution health literacy among adult residents of Taiwan
Characteristics | Source of information | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Home phones (n = 1017) | Mobile phones (n = 280) | p value | |||
n | % | n | % | ||
Gender | 0.004 | ||||
Men | 473 | 46.5 | 103 | 36.8 | |
Women | 544 | 53.5 | 177 | 63.2 | |
Age (years) | < 0.001 | ||||
20–34 | 228 | 22.4 | 79 | 28.2 | |
35–44 | 180 | 17.7 | 65 | 23.2 | |
45–54 | 222 | 21.8 | 74 | 26.4 | |
55–64 | 257 | 25.3 | 53 | 18.9 | |
> =65 | 130 | 12.8 | 9 | 3.2 | |
Education | < 0.001 | ||||
Junior high school and lower | 118 | 11.6 | 7 | 2.5 | |
High school | 306 | 30.1 | 67 | 23.9 | |
College | 516 | 50.7 | 181 | 64.6 | |
Graduate studies | 77 | 7.6 | 25 | 8.9 | |
Occupation | < 0.001 | ||||
Clerks | 52 | 5.2 | 30 | 10.9 | |
Service workers and shop and market sales workers | 214 | 21.1 | 50 | 18.1 | |
Technology professionals | 53 | 5.3 | 18 | 6.6 | |
Construction workers | 51 | 5.1 | 14 | 5.1 | |
Agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, and fishing workers | 38 | 3.8 | 15 | 5.5 | |
Transportation and communication workers | 59 | 5.9 | 30 | 10.9 | |
Teachers, athletes, and art performers | 103 | 10.1 | 43 | 15.6 | |
Healthcare and social workers | 27 | 2.7 | 12 | 4.4 | |
Legislators, government administrators, business executives and managers | 37 | 3.7 | 14 | 5.1 | |
Others (including housekeeper, retirees, and students) | 374 | 37.1 | 49 | 17.8 | |
Living arrangement | < 0.001 | ||||
Living alone | 93 | 9.1 | 54 | 19.3 | |
Living with someone | 924 | 90.9 | 226 | 80.7 | |
Children < 12 years | 225 | 22.1 | 44 | 15.7 | |
Someone who is a student and aged > = 12 years | 407 | 40.0 | 102 | 36.4 | |
Elderly people aged > = 65 | 420 | 41.3 | 90 | 32.1 | |
Marital status | 0.006 | ||||
Single | 268 | 26.4 | 93 | 33.2 | |
Married | 698 | 68.6 | 145 | 51.8 | |
Others | 51 | 5.0 | 42 | 15.0 | |
Area of living | < 0.001 | ||||
North | 457 | 44.9 | 179 | 63.9 | |
Central | 240 | 23.6 | 45 | 16.1 | |
South | 257 | 25.3 | 46 | 16.4 | |
East and remote islands | 63 | 6.2 | 10 | 3.6 |