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2001 CHAP
Telephone Survey
What are the Demographic
Characteristics of the Population?
Community
Health Assessment Sample Demographic Characteristics
Sedgwick County, as a whole, has
a typical small midwestern city profile in terms of age, gender,
racial/ethnic composition, and marital status. The 2001 CHAP
Telephone sample was comprised of a slightly higher number of
women in comparison to the 1996 survey (Table 1). Respondents were
predominantly female (68.1%) with an average age of 42 years.
Gender estimates for Sedgwick County in 1999 indicate that 48.9%
of the population is male, while 51.1% are female. The second
person residing in the home was predominantly male (56.4%), with a
mean age of 22 years (Table 8). Approximately 60% of the sample
was between 18 and 44 years old, while nearly 38% were between 45
and 64 years.
The non-Hispanic white population
represented 86.2% of the sample, while the nonwhite population was
composed of African-American (6.1%), Hispanic (3.4%), other
(2.1%), Native American (1.2%), and Asian (1.0%) (Table 1).
Table
2 includes the ethnicity of all 2001 survey respondents, their
dependents, and other adults residing in their households.
Sedgwick County statistics indicate that nearly 60% of adults in
the county are married, 18.2% are divorced, separated, or widowed,
and 22.6% have never been married (Wichita MSA 1999 Population
Characteristics).
Sedgwick County remains solidly middle class in terms of income,
education, and employment status. The 2001 CHAP sample reported
higher levels of education, showing a substantially smaller
percentage of respondents reporting less than high school
education than the 1996 survey results. Of those surveyed in
2001, 4.4% of adults reported they had not graduated from high
school, whereas in 1996, 9.5% reported less than high school
education (See Table 3). In the 2001 CHAP nearly 23% reported
they had graduated from high school, while over 70% of indicated
they had more than a high school education.
Table 4 describes the
education level of 2001 CHAP survey respondents and other adult
members of their household in greater detail. English is the
primary language spoken in the vast majority of homes (98.5%),
with Spanish, Vietnamese and Cambodian comprising the remaining
1.5% of the sample.
Annual
household income of 2001 survey respondents and other adults
living in their household is listed in
Table 5. Income statistics
of the 2001 survey respondents for the 1996 survey are comparable
to 2001 results. Percentages for the individual income strata
have remained relatively stable. A major difference in the 1996
versus 2001 findings is the percentage of respondents reporting
income of greater than $50,000 per year. In 2001, 18.1% of
respondents reported an income of $50,000 or greater, whereas in
1996, 35.8% of the sample reported income exceeding $50,000. In
addition, a much lower percentage of respondents refused to answer
the item about annual income in 2001 vs. 1996, 6.6% and 31.6%,
respectively. The estimated median household income for 1999 is
$41,216 for the Wichita MSA. When comparing the 2001 CHAP sample
statistics to 1999 Wichita MSA statistics, all income strata are
within five percentage points. The percentage of respondents
reporting household income of less than $15,000 was slightly lower
than 1999 Wichita MSA percentages, however, all other income
strata were slightly higher. Approximately 40% of the sample
reports income less than the Wichita MSA median household income.
The Wichita MSA had an annual
average unemployment rate of 3.3% in 1999. As of June 2000, the
unemployment rate was slightly higher at 3.9% (Wichita MSA 1999
Population Characteristics). According to the 2001 CHAP survey,
the majority of respondents (85.2%) report consistent employment
in the previous year, either full-time or part-time. Of the 14.8%
who report being unemployed in the previous year, 9.8% are
homemakers, reducing the unemployment rate in the CHAP 2001 sample
to approximately 5.0%, which is comparable to Wichita MSA rates
(see Table 6). When asked “how many months were you employed last
year,” 73.8% reported being employed consistently ten or more
months during the year, and 13.2% reported being employed three
months or less during 2000. Among other adults residing in the
household, employment statistics are comparable. The majority of
other adults residing in the home were reported as being employed
consistently (81.5%), whereas the remaining 18.5% were reported as
being employed nine months or less.
Occupational status
of respondents and other adults living in the household was
investigated (see Table 7). Nearly 23.0% of the sample report
professional services (attorney, accountant, teacher) as their
occupation, followed by health care services (11.4%),
manufacturing (10.5%), trade (buying or selling merchandise either
wholesale or retail) (10.3%), homemaker (9.8%), general services
(restaurant service, mechanic) (7.8%) and other (16.6%). The
remaining ten percent are distributed among construction,
transportation/public utility, government and military.
For other adults living in the
household, occupation statistics are slightly different.
Professional services represent 26.0% of the sample while trade
comprises nearly 21% of responses. Manufacturing (16.5%),
general services (11.7%), and construction (7.5%) represent a
large portion of occupation categories. Agriculture,
transportation/public utility, health care services, government,
and military represent the remaining 17%. Only 7.6% of the
adults report working a second job.
When
respondents were asked, “how many persons do you consider to be
living in your household?” over 80% of those surveyed report a
family of two or more persons residing in their household (see
Figure 1). Only 20% were single residents of their household.
Nearly 30% of the households consist of two people, and
approximately 39% have three or four persons in their household.
Less than 15% report five or more persons living in their
household, and nearly 48% of respondents reported that the second
person residing in the home was aged less than 18 years. The
findings suggest there are more female head of household who have
their young adult children living with them (see
Table 8). 1990
census statistics for the Wichita MSA show that 18.6% of
households with children have females as head of household.
BRFSS Demographics
The demographic characteristics
of the combined analysis of 1998 and 1999 BRFSS data for Sedgwick
County included 1,189 observations. When respondents aged 65
years or more are excluded, the sample is reduced to 942
observations. Gender characteristics of the BRFSS data are not
similar to the 2001 CHAP Telephone sample (see
Table 1). While
the gender of BRFSS respondents was predominantly female (59.2%)
with an average age of 47 years, the 2001 CHAP showed a higher
representation of females (68.1%) with a slightly lower mean age
of 42 years. In relationship to age, 65.9% of the Sedgwick County
BRFSS sample was between 18 and 44 years old, while 34.2% were
between 45 and 64 years.
Ethnicity of the BRFSS sample is
comparable to the 2001 CHAP except Hispanic representation is
slightly higher in the BRFSS sample (7.0% vs. 3.4%) (see
Table 1). The non-Hispanic white population represented 83.0% of the
sample, while the nonwhite population was composed of
African-American (6.8%), Hispanic (7.0%), other (1.4%), Native
American (0.7%), and Asian (1.2%). BRFSS marital status
characteristics differ slightly from Sedgwick County MSA
statistics in that the percentage of married persons is
approximately 50% versus 60%, respectively. In the BRFSS data,
52.2% of respondents are married, while 16.2% are divorced, 11.7%
are widowed, 2.6% are separated, 14.6% have never been married,
and 2.4% are members of an unmarried couple.
The
BRFSS data also differs from the 2001 CHAP sample in reported
levels of education. Of those surveyed in the BRFSS, 7.4%
reported less than high school education, whereas 4.4% of adults
in the 2001 CHAP reported they had not graduated from high school
(see Table 3). There is a larger difference in reported
percentages with a high school education; 22.7% of the 2001 CHAP
sample reported a high school education, while only 31.6% reported
a high school education in the BRFSS sample. Finally, 72.9% of
the 2001 CHAP respondents reported more than a high school
education, while the Sedgwick County BRFSS analysis indicates
61.0% of respondents had more than a high school education.
Sedgwick County BRFSS data show
that approximately 7.2% of the sample reported an annual income of
less than $15,000, which is lower than the 2001 CHAP results
(14.1%) and Wichita MSA statistics (15.5%). The percentage of
respondents reporting annual income from $15,000-$25,000,
$25,001-$35,000, and greater than $50,000 for the BRFSS
respondents are different than the 2001 CHAP and 1999 Wichita MSA
estimates (see Table 5). More than 45% of the BRFSS sample
reports income less than the Wichita MSA median household income.
The
majority of BRFSS respondents (66.5%) report being employed during
the previous year. Less than 2.0% of BRFSS respondents report
being out of work (1.0% less than one year, 0.8% greater than one
year). This is lower than the Wichita MSA annual average
unemployment rate of 3.3% in 1999, and the 2001 CHAP unemployment
rate of approximately 5.0%. The reported percentage of homemakers
for BRFSS respondents was 7.3%, which is comparable to 9.8%
reported in the 2001 CHAP sample.
When
BRFSS respondents were asked, “how many children live in your
household?” 68.5% report no children, while 12.4% report one
child, 11.7% report two children, 4.8% report three children, and
2.5% report four or more children.
Graphs
1,
2,
3,
4 and
5 compare the demographic characteristics of Sedgwick
County BRFSS data to Kansas and U.S. BRFSS data.
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