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Table 1 Demographics of older adult participants

From: Sustainability of residential environmental interventions and health outcomes in the elderly

Baseline characteristic

Older adults

n

%

Sex

 Female

44

73.3

 Male

16

26.7

Race a

 Black

1

1.7

 White

39

65.0

 Asian

16

26.7

 Unknown/other

4

6.7

Ethnicity

 Non-Hispanic

35

58.3

 Hispanic

25

41.7

Marital status

 Married

5

8.3

Education

 Any college

14

23.3

 High school

5

8.3

 < High school

41

68.4

Household Income b

 0–50% area median income

44

72.9

 ≥ 50% area median income

4

6.8

Smoker in primary home c

7

11.9

COPD

19 d

31.7

  1. N = 60. Participants were on average 73.0 years old
  2. a Older adults were able to indicate their ethnicity and race separately
  3. b Income level was often unreported. Since the study population lived in public or privately owned subsidized housing, it is likely that most unreported income was in the 0–50% area median income (AMI) category
  4. c 5 subjects were current smokers, 2 subjects lived with current smokers
  5. d 2 of 19 COPD subjects were current smokers (included in 7 above)