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Table 1 Comparison of GROW respondents (N = 3016) to active nonrespondents (N = 1010), and to all eligible nonrespondents (N = 6240), unweighted

From: Survey methodology of the geographic research on wellbeing (GROW) study

 

GROW respondents

Activea non-respondents

P value

Eligibleb non-respondents

P value

Language, % English

72.8

76.5

0.020

66.6a

<0.0001

County, %

 Alameda

9.2

6.1

0.006

7.1

0.0003

 Los Angeles

43.8

47.3

47.1

 Orange

14.8

15.9

15.5

 Sacramento

8.1

6.0

6.9

 San Diego

15.3

15.0

15.4

 Santa Clara

8.8

9.6

8.1

Baseline MIHA year, %

 2003

17.6

19.5

0.208

22.3

<0.0001

 2004

17.9

18.0

20.6

 2005

18.8

19.6

20.6

 2006

21.5

22.1

20.0

 2007

24.3

20.8

16.4

Race/ethnicity, %

 African American

11.5

13.5

0.002

17.7

<0.0001

 Asian/Pacific Islander

9.7

11.0

10.1

 Latina, immigrant

28.5

25.1

34.6

 Latina, US-born

15.2

19.4

16.7

 White

32.8

28.8

18.9

Family income, % of federal poverty level

 0–100 %

23.2

28.2

0.019

38.6

<0.0001

 101–200 %

16.6

20.0

19.9

 201–300 %

9.9

8.7

7.6

 301–400 %

8.4

7.1

5.3

 401+ %

31.7

26.6

17.3

 Missing

10.3

9.3

11.3

Educational attainment, %

 Did not complete high school

16.7

17.0

<0.0001

22.7

<0.0001

 High school graduate/GED

21.4

24.3

30.0

 Some college

23.4

28.9

25.5

 College graduate or more

38.1

29.4

21.2

  1. p values are based on a Chi square statistic
  2. aActive = able to be located
  3. bEligible = women who gave permission to be re-contacted and lived in the six counties