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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Research

Human Exposure to Live Poultry and Psychological and Behavioral Responses to Influenza A(H7N9), China

Liping Wang1, Benjamin J. Cowling1, Peng Wu1, Jianxing Yu1, Fu Li, Lingjia Zeng, Joseph T. Wu, Zhongjie Li, Gabriel M. Leung, and Hongjie YuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (L. Wang, J. Yu, F. Li, L. Zeng, Z. Li, H. Yu); Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (B.J. Cowling, P. Wu, J.T. Wu, G.M. Leung)

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Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited for urban and rural surveys of influenza A(H7N9) awareness, China, 2013*

Characteristic No. (%) persons
Urban, n = 2,504 Rural, n = 1,227
Male sex
 1,288 (51.4)
 626 (51.0)
Age group, y
18–44 1,938 (77.5) 685 (55.8)
45–64 415 (16.6) 405 (33.0)
>65
 147 (5.9)
 137 (11.2)
Educational attainment
No formal education 38 (1.5) 86 (7.0)
Primary school 191 (7.6) 259 (21.1)
Middle school 391 (15.6) 464 (37.9)
High school 593 (23.7) 268 (21.9)
College and above
 1,291 (51.6)
 148 (12.1)
Occupation
Service workers and shop sales workers 601 (24.0) 164 (13.4)
Professionals 504 (20.1) 66 (5.4)
Retired 293 (11.7) 61 (5.0)
Unemployed 678 (27.1) 195 (15.9)
Full-time students 232 (9.3) 111 (9.0)
Homemakers 96 (3.8) 86 (7.0)
Agricultural and fishery workers
 100 (4.0)
 544 (44.3)
Marital status
Single 941 (38.1) 269 (22.0)
Married 1,458 (59.0) 923 (75.4)
Divorced/separated 35 (1.4) 12 (1.0)
Widowed
 36 (1.5)
 20 (1.6)
Average household income, in renminbi*
No income 65 (3.0) 83 (6.8)
<3,000 368 (17.0) 748 (61.2)
3,001–6,000 627 (28.9) 264 (21.6)
6,001–10,000 408 (18.8) 80 (6.5)
10,001–50,000 396 (18.2) 28 (2.3)
Not sure
 307 (14.1)
 20 (1.6)
Recent history of travel away from home
Yes 479 (19.1) 117 (9.6)

*6.1 Chinese renminbi = $1 US.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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