Research Article
Hepatitis B Awareness and Knowledge in Asian Communities in British Columbia
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of survey respondents.
| | Characteristics | (%) |
| | Age | | | 19–24 | 78 (7.7) | | 25–39 | 252 (24.9) | | 40–54 | 336 (33.2) | | ≥55 | 343 (33.9) | | Gender | | | Male | 448 (44.2) | | Female | 565 (55.8) | | Ethnicity | | | Chinese | 519 (51.2%) | | South Asian | 274 (27.0) | | Filipino | 118 (11.6) | | Korean | 63 (6.2) | | Southeast Asian | 39 (3.8) | | Status in Canada | | | Citizen | 751 (74.1) | | Permanent resident | 239 (23.6) | | Nonresident (temporary foreign worker, student, or visitor) | 23 (2.3) | | Language spoken at home | | | Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) | 513 (50.6) | | English | 83 (8.2) | | Korean | 48 (4.7) | | Southeast Asian languages | 104 (10.3) | | South Asian languages | 256 (25.3) | | Other languages | 9 (0.9) | | Second language at home | | | English | 807 (79.7) | | French | 3 (0.3) | | Spanish | 4 (0.4) | | None | 126 (12.4) | | Education | | | Primary/elementary | 91 (9.0) | | Secondary | 253 (25.0) | | Postsecondary | 199 (19.6) | | University | 453 (44.7) | | Working | | | Yes | 484 (47.8) | | No | 525 (51.8) | | Having a family doctor | | | Yes | 944 (93.2) | | No | 68 (6.8) | | Physical checkup | | | Yes | 729 (72.0) | | No | 284 (28.0) |
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