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Table 3 Respondent* and household^ characteristics, by gardening season (n, %) (Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, Toronto).

From: Municipal bylaw to reduce cosmetic/non-essential pesticide use on household lawns - a policy implementation evaluation

Characteristics

Gardening Season

Totals

(N = 4901)

 

2003

(N = 608)

2004

(N = 609)

2005‡

(N = 1440)

2006‡

(N = 777)

2007

(N = 620)

2008

(N = 847)

 

Gender* (weighted counts, wgtd %)

(n = 608)

(n = 607)

(n = 1453)

(n = 795)

(n = 614)

(n = 825)

 

   Women

316 (52.0%)

353 (58.2%)

795 (54.7%)

459 (57.7%)

344 (56.0%)

457 (55.3%)

2723 (55.6%)

   Men

292 (48.0%)

253 (41.8%)

658 (45.3%)

336 (42.3%)

270 (44.0%)

368 (44.7%)

2178 (44.4%)

Education* (wgtd counts, wgtd %)

(n = 608)

(n = 607)

(n = 1453)

(n = 795)

(n = 614)

(n = 825)

 

   < High school

62 (10.2%)

82 (13.5%)

130 (9.0%)

77 (9.7%)

45 (7.3%)

63 (7.7%)

459 (9.4%)

   High school

118 (19.5%)

111 (18.2%)

269 (18.5%)

138 (17.4%)

130 (21.2%)

182 (22.1%)

947 (19.3%)

   Some post-2ndy

58 (9.6%)

60 (9.9%)

124 (8.6%)

76 (9.6%)

40 (6.5%)

75 (9.1%)

434 (8.9%)

   Completed post-2ndy

361 (59.4%)

347 (57.2%)

904 (62.2%)

496 (62.3%)

394 (64.1%)

494 (59.8%)

2995 (61.1%)

   Missing, don't know, refused

9 (1.4%)

7 (1.2%)

26 (1.7%)

8 (1.0%)

5 (0.9%)

11 (1.3%)

66 (1.3%)

Income^†

       

   < low income cutoff

122 (20.1%)

127 (20.9%)

201 (14.0%)

121 (15.6%)

91 (14.7%)

137 (16.2%)

799 (16.3%)

   ≥ > low income cutoff

357 (58.7%)

344 (56.5%)

842 (58.5%)

433 (55.7%)

336 (54.2%)

460 (54.3%)

2772 (56.6%)

   Missing, don't know, refused

129 (21.2%)

138 (22.7%)

397 (27.8%)

223 (28.7%)

193 (31.1%)

250 (29.5%)

1330 (27.1%)

Municipality^

       

   East York

36 (5.9%)

33 (5.4%)

98 (6.8%)

60 (7.7%)

40 (6.5%)

64 (7.6%)

331 (6.8%)

   Etobicoke

98 (16.1%)

76 (12.5%)

190 (13.2%)

98 (12.6%)

86 (13.9%)

142 (16.8%)

690 (14.1%)

   North York

157 (25.8%)

155 (25.5%)

340 (23.6%)

172 (22.1%)

151 (24.4%)

189 (22.3%)

1164 (23.8%)

   Old City of Toronto

168 (27.6%)

183 (30.0%)

388 (26.9%)

215 (27.7%)

174 (28.1%)

241 (28.5%)

1369 (27.9%)

   Scarborough

116 (19.1%)

118 (19.4%)

333 (23.1%)

175 (22.5%)

133 (21.5%)

168 (19.8%)

1043 (21.3%)

   York

29 (4.8%)

32 (5.3%)

70 (4.9%)

48 (6.2%)

27 (4.4%)

34 (4.0%)

240 (4.9%)

   Other

1 (0.2%)

1 (0.2%)

2 (0.1%)

1 (0.1%)

3 (0.5%)

0 (0.0%)

8 (0.2%)

   Missing, don't know, refused

3 (0.5%)

11 (1.8%)

19 (1.3%)

8 (1.0%)

6 (1.0%)

9 (1.1%)

56 (1.1%)

Had a lawn^

       

   Yes

333 (54.8%)

289 (47.5%)

896 (62.2%)

479 (61.7%)

308 (49.7%)

421 (49.7%)

2726 (55.6%)

   No

265 (43.6%)

312 (51.2%)

529 (36.7%)

294 (37.8%)

308 (49.7%)

421 (49.7%)

2129 (43.4%)

   Missing, don't know, refused

10 (1.6%)

8 (1.3%)

15 (1.0%)

4 (0.5%)

4 (0.6%)

4 (0.6%)

46 (0.9%)

Hired a lawn care company^ [among those with lawns]

       

   Yes

81 (24.3%)

77 (26.6%)

193 (21.5%)

97 (20.3%)

72 (23.4%)

98 (23.3%)

618 (22.7%)

   No

248 (74.5%)

202 (69.9%)

693 (77.3%)

376 (78.5%)

232 (75.3%)

316 (75.1%)

2067 (75.8%)

   Missing, don't know, refused

4 (1.2%)

10 (3.5%)

10 (1.1%)

6 (1.3%)

4 (1.3%)

7 (1.7%)

41 (1.5%)

  1. ‡ Explicit oversamples of those with lawns occurred for the 2005 (n = 355) and 2006 (n = 179) gardening seasons
  2. † The cut-offs are based on income before taxes for a 2 person household in a community size of 500,00 and over. Since the cut-off for a 2 person household in a community size of 500,000 and
  3. over is 27,601, a value within an income category ($20,000 to $29,999), all respondents within this category were designated below the LICO. All respondents within income categories > 30,000 were designated above the LICO.
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