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Table 1 Characteristics of included respondents subject to each jurisdiction’s helmet law

From: Bicycle helmet laws and persistent racial and ethnic helmet use disparities among urban high school students: a repeated cross-sectional analysis

 

Dallas

San Diego

Miami-Dade & Broward Counties

% (CI)

% (CI)

% (CI)

Characteristics

 Female sex, % (CI)

44.4 (43.2, 45.7)

41.9 (40.6, 43.2)

46.3 (45.1, 47.6)

 Race/Ethnicity, % (CI)

   

  White, non-Latino

10.8 (9.8, 12.0)

33.7 (32.2, 35.2)

23.6 (22.0, 25.3)

  African American, non-Latino

40.6 (38.8, 42.4)

13.9 (12.9, 14.9)

28.7 (26.8, 30.7)

  Latino

48.6 (46.8, 50.4)

37.9 (36.4, 39.4)

47.7 (45.7, 49.7)

  Asian

---

14.5 (13.6, 15.4)

---

 Age, % (CI)

  14 and under

12.3 (10.8, 14.0)

18.9 (17.1, 20.7)

27.6 (26.3, 29.0)

  15 years old

31.7 (29.6, 34.0)

30.7 (28.9, 32.4)

72.4 (71.0, 73.7)

  16 years old

26.6 (24.5, 28.8)

28.1 (26.4, 29.9)

---

  17 years old

18.5 (16.7, 20.5)

22.4 (20.5, 24.4)

---

  18 and over

10.9 (9.4, 12.5)

---

---

 Sample Sizes, n

11,514

9871

10,865

  1991

1894

---

961

  1993

1847

1047

809

  1995

1776

1072

849

  1997

875

1309

935

  1999

934

898

987

  2001

951

873

875

  2003

967

798

948

  2005

631

743

963

  2007

561

743

686

  2009

466

886

867

  2011

612

823

1088

  2013

---

679

897

  1. Sample sizes (n) are unweighted. Percentages and their confidence intervals for respondent characteristics are weighted. “---” denotes that that subpopulation or survey year was excluded from the analysis for reasons described in the methods