Volume 16, Number 8—August 2010
Dispatch
Household Effects of School Closure during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA
, Rakhee S. Palekar, Samir V. Sodha, Charlotte K. Kent, Ryan P. Fagan, W. Roodly Archer, Paul J. Edelson, Tiffany Marchbanks, Achuyt Bhattarai, David L. Swerdlow, Stephen Ostroff, Martin I. Meltzer, and for the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group
Table 1
Demographic variables of households affected by school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA*
| Variable | No. (%) households† |
|---|---|
| No. adults (>18 y) | |
| 1 | 25 (11.7) |
| 2 | 157 (73.4) |
| >2 |
32 (15.0) |
| No. children (<18 y) | |
| 1 | 44 (20.6) |
| 2 | 92 (43.0) |
| 3 | 53 (24.8) |
| >3 |
25 (11.7) |
| Households with >1 adult with ILI | 34 (15.9) |
| Households with >1 child with ILI | 88 (41.1) |
| Households with the oldest student with ILI |
67 (31.3) |
| Household income (US$) | |
| 0–29,999 | 27 (12.6) |
| 30,000-59,999 | 65 (30.4) |
| 60,000–89,999 | 51 (23.8) |
| >90,000 | 42 (19.6) |
| Don’t know/refused/missing |
29 (13.6) |
| No. wage earners | |
| 1 | 64 (29.9) |
| 2 | 135 (63.1) |
| >3 | 12 (5.6) |
| Don’t know/refused/missing |
3(1.4) |
| Time adult in household missed work to watch oldest student, d | |
| 0 | 168 (78.5) |
| 1 | 13 (6.1) |
| 2 | 7 (3.3) |
| 3 | 4 (1.9) |
| 4 | 4 (1.9) |
| 5 |
18 (8.4) |
| % Adults in household who work | |
| 33 | 5 (2.3) |
| 40 | 1 (0.5) |
| 50 | 44 (20.6) |
| 67 | 16 (7.5) |
| 75 | 3 (1.4) |
| 100 | 142 (66.4) |
| Don’t know/refused/missing | 3 (1.4) |
*ILI, influenza-like illness.
†Categories are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding.
1Members of the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group are listed at the end of this article.
1Members of the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group: from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, W. Roodly Archer, Frederick J. Angulo, John Beltrami, Achuyt Bhattarai, Paul J. Edelson, Ryan P. Fagan, Anthony Fiore, Thomas L. Gift, George S. Han, Charlotte K. Kent, Rebecca Leap, Amanda M. McWhorter, Martin I. Meltzer, Michael D. Nguyen, Benjamin L. Nygren, Rakhee S. Palekar; and from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Phyllis Britz, Brent Ennis, James Lute, Tiffany Marchbanks, Maria Moll, Steven Ostroff, Owen Simwale.