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Table 3 Home and automobile smoking bans by mother's sociodemographic characteristics*

From: Prevalence and predictors of home and automobile smoking bans and child environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a cross-sectional study of U.S.- and Mexico-born Hispanic women with young children

Characteristic

Home Smoking Bans

Automobile Smoking Bans‡

 

Complete Ban No. (%)†

No/Partial Ban No. (%)†

P

Complete Ban No. (%)†

No/Partial Ban No. (%)†

P

Country of birth

  

<.001

  

.001

   Mexico

118 (95)

6 (5)

 

107 (90)

12 (10)

 

   United States

111 (78)

32 (22)

 

105 (74)

37 (26)

 

Marital status

  

.013

  

.099

   Married

115 (92)

10 (8)

 

109 (87)

16 (13)

 

   Live-in partner

44 (83)

9 (17)

 

37 (74)

13 (26)

 

   Single/Widowed

52 (75)

17 (25)

 

51 (78)

14 (22)

 

   Divorced/Separated

18 (90)

2 (10)

 

15 (71)

6 (29)

 

Age, years

  

.306

  

.265

   <25

59 (86)

10 (14)

 

53 (80)

13 (20)

 

   25–28

56 (84)

11 (16)

 

52 (76)

16 (24)

 

   29–34

53 (82)

12 (18)

 

49 (79)

13 (21)

 

   ≥35

61 (92)

5 (8)

 

58 (89)

7 (11)

 

Education

  

.112

  

.157

   <High school graduate

98 (88)

13 (12)

 

80 (77)

24 (23)

 

   High school graduate/GED

75 (80)

19 (20)

 

76 (81)

18 (19)

 

   College/Vocational training

56 (90)

6 (10)

 

56 (89)

7 (11)

 

Employment

  

.572

  

.089

   Employed consistently, full or part-time

130 (84)

25 (16)

 

129 (84)

25 (16)

 

   Employed intermittently

28 (88)

4 (12)

 

20 (67)

10 (33)

 

   Unemployed

71 (89)

9 (11)

 

63 (82)

14 (18)

 

Percent of U.S. federal poverty threshold

  

.530

  

.103

   <100%

73 (85)

13 (15)

 

60 (74)

21 (26)

 

   100–185%

71 (90)

8 (10)

 

68 (87)

10 (13)

 

   >185%

70 (84)

13 (16)

 

69 (82)

15 (18)

 
  1. GED = General equivalency diploma.
  2. *Some strata do not sum to 269 because of missing data.
  3. †Row percent.
  4. ‡Seven respondents were excluded who reported no family automobile; one excluded because of missing data.