Table 1
Socio-demographic characteristics of all participants in the MICASA study and those who
also participated in the Home Pesticide Study assessed on theMICASA baseline interview,
2006–2007.
All baseline participants Home pesticide
participants
N (%) Male Female Male Female
Age range
18–30 111 (25.5) 130 (29.6) 23 (44.2) 27 (49.1)
31–40 145 (33.3) 168 (38.2) 21 (40.4) 25 (45.5)
41–45 64 (14.7) 63 (14.3) 6 (11.5) 3 (5.4)
46+ 115 (26.5) 79 (17.9) 2 (3.9) 0 (0.0)
Education
No school 18 (4.6) 16 (4.1) 0 (0.0) 3 (6.4)
≤6th grade education 252 (64.1) 212 (54.6) 31 (67.4) 17 (36.2)
N6th grade education 123 (31.3) 160 (41.3) 15 (32.6) 27 (57.4)
Marital status
Married 413 (95.2) 411 (93.4) 55 (100) 55 (100)
Divorced/separated/widow 4 (0.9) 15 (3.4) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Single 17 (3.9) 14 (3.2) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Country of birth
United States 17 (3.9) 23 (5.2) 1 (1.9) 1 (1.8)
Mexico 279 (64.1) 296 (67.3) 34 (65.4) 37 (67.3)
El Salvador 126 (29.0) 107 (24.3) 16 (30.8) 17 (30.9)
Honduras/Nicaragua/Guatemala 13 (3.0) 14 (3.2) 1 (1.9) 0 (0.0)