
6 Environmental Health: Indoor Exposures, Assessments and Interventions
weighted distribution shows that approximately 57% of the sampled population was
non-Hispanic white, 15% was non-Hispanic black, and 24% was Hispanic. The vast
majority (97.43%) of the children were born in the United States. Fifty-eight percent
lived in a single-family detached house, and almost one-quarter lived in an apartment.
Fifty-two percent of the homes for which data on the year of construction were avail-
able were built before 1978. Approximately 6% of homes were built before 1950 and
had evidence of deteriorated paint (i.e., peeling, flaking, or chipping paint) ...