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Avian Influenza Risk Perception, Europe and Asia

Onno de Zwart*

, Irene K. Veldhuijzen*, Gillian Elam†, Arja R. Aro‡, Thomas Abraham§, George D. Bishop¶, Jan Hendrik Richardus#, and Johannes Brug#

Author affiliations: *Municipal Public Health Service, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; †Health Protection Agency—Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom; ‡University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark; §University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China; ¶National University of Singapore, Singapore; #Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;

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Distribution of general characteristics of the study population, by country or region, September 20–November 22, 2005*

	No. (%)
Characteristic	DNK	POL	NLD	UK	ESP	CHN	HKG	SGP	Europe	Asia	Total
Total	463 (14)	488 (14)	400 (12)	401 (12)	425 (12)	404 (12)	396 (12)	426 (13)	2,177 (64)	1,226 (36)	3,403 (100)
Sex
Male	40	39	42	41	41	47	44	43	40	45	42
Female	60	61	58	59	59	53	56	57	60	55	58
Age group, y
18–30	13	18	10	13	17	43	27	35	14	35	22
31–44	31	31	31	35	34	34	35	31	32	33	33
45–60	36	32	37	31	32	19	27	20	33	22	29
61–75	20	19	24	21	17	4	12	14	20	10	16
Area
City	26	21	9	20	45	86	90	81	24	86	46
Town	38	25	37	45	42	9	4	16	37	10	27
Village/countryside	37	54	55	36	13	4	6	2	39	4	26
Education
Primary or less	17	8	5	2	22	4	13	3	11	7	9
Low	31	22	28	20	9	19	20	11	22	16	20
Intermediate	38	43	35	35	31	35	32	38	37	35	36
High	13	28	32	43	38	42	35	48	30	42	34

*DNK, Denmark; POL, Poland; NLD, the Netherlands; UK, United Kingdom; ESP, Spain; CHN, China; HKG, Hong Kong; SGP, Singapore.

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