Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
Research
Avian Influenza Risk Perception, Hong Kong
Table 1
Sample characteristics and thematic household survey, Hong Kong, 2002
Variables | Respondents |
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No. female (%) | No. male (%) | Total (%) | Thematic household survey proportion | Effect size* | |
Sex | 589 (60) | 397 (40) | 986 (100) | 0.20 | |
Male | (40) | 49.8 | |||
Female | (60) | 50.2 | |||
Age (y)† | 0.16 | ||||
18–34 | 136 (23) | 111 (28) | 247 (25) | 30.9 | |
35–44 | 176 (30) | 93 (23) | 269 (27) | 25.3 | |
45–64 | 215 (36) | 134 (34) | 349 (35) | 29.7 | |
≥65 | 62 (10) | 58 (15) | 120 (12) | 14.2 | |
Marital status‡ | 0.14 | ||||
Single | 108 (18) | 117 (29) | 225 (23) | 27.1 | |
Married | 428 (73) | 262 (66) | 690 (70) | 63.7 | |
Divorced/separated | 12 (2) | 8 (2) | 20 (2) | 2.8 | |
Widowed | 39 (7) | 9 (2) | 48 (5) | 6.4 | |
Missing | 2 (0) | 1 (0) | 3 (0) | ||
Place of birth§ | 0.11 | ||||
Hong Kong | 336 (57) | 279 (70) | 615 (62) | 59.7¶ | |
China province | 225 (38) | 108 (27) | 333 (34) | 33.7 | |
Elsewhere | 28 (5) | 10 (2) | 38 (4) | 6.6 | |
Education# | 589 | 397 | 0.24 | ||
None/primary 1–6 | 140 (24) | 74 (18) | 214 (22) | 30.5 | |
Secondary 7–11 | 311 (53) | 188 (48) | 499 (51) | 46.2 | |
Matriculated 12–13 | 32 (5) | 33 (8) | 65 (7) | 3.6 | |
Tertiary | 106 (18) | 102 (26) | 208 (21) | 19.7 | |
Occupation | 589 | 396 | 0.29 | ||
Employed | 236 (41) | 260 (65) | 496 (51) | 61.2 | |
Unemployed | 27 (5) | 45 (11) | 72 (7) | 5.5 | |
Student | 28 (5) | 23(6) | 51 (5) | 4.0 | |
Homemaker | 254 (43) | 1 (0) | 255 (26) | 16.3 | |
Retired | 44 (7) | 67 (17) | 111 (11) | 13.0 |
*Three levels of effect sizes: 0.1, small; 0.3, medium; 0.5, large.
†Differences between male and female participants: χ2= 16.30, degrees of freedom (df) = 5, p = 0.006.
‡Source: Census and Statistics Department. 2001 Population Census: Main Report. Volume I. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government Printer; 2002.
§χ2 = 21.67, df = 4, p<0.001.
¶ χ2 = 23.84, df = 3, p<0.001.
# χ2 = 10.54, df = 3, p = 0.015.
Note: Totals may not be summed to 1 due to rounding.