Risk Perceptions of Environmental Hazards and Human Reproduction: A Community-Based Survey

Table 4

Response frequencies for hazards respondents perceived as most harmful to human reproduction for either men or women.

	Lead	Stress	Carrying and lifting	Water pollution	Air pollution	Don’t know/No response
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	%
Total sample (𝑛=1261)	48.5	32.4	2.1	5.7	6.3	5.0
Gender (𝑛=1261)
Male	46.5	33.4	2.4	5.5	6.6	5.7
Female	50.5	31.5	1.9	5.9	5.9	4.3
Age group (𝑛=1251)
18–34	32.5	43.4	3.0	10.2	7.8	3.0
35–44	45.9	40.4	0.9	2.8	5.5	4.6
45–54	52.9	32.0	1.7	5.5	3.4	4.5
55–64	54.4	27.6	1.4	4.6	7.8	4.2
65+	49.2	25.7	3.6	6.6	7.3	7.6
Place of residence (𝑛=1257)
City	50.6	29.0	2.6	6.4	6.6	4.9
Town	43.6	36.1	1.2	5.6	6.2	7.1
Rural	49.6	35.7	1.8	4.3	5.7	2.9
Children in the household (𝑛=1258)
No	48.9	30.1	2.5	5.9	7.2	5.4
Yes	47.5	36.9	1.6	5.4	4.5	4.1

Note. No response given to age 𝑛=10 (0.8%), place or residence 𝑛=4 (0.3%), and children in the household 𝑛=3 (0.2%).