From: Respiratory fit test panel representing population of Malaysia
Panel | Cell | Male | Female | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||||
NIOSH (2007) | |||||||||
1 | 76 | (4.9) | 309 | (17.5) | 385 | (11.6) | |||
2 | 145 | (9.3) | 287 | (16.2) | 432 | (13.0) | |||
3 | 186 | (12.0) | 457 | (25.8) | 643 | (19.3) | |||
4 | 225 | (14.5) | 329 | (18.6) | 554 | (16.7) | |||
5 | 179 | (11.5) | 93 | (5.3) | 272 | (8.2) | |||
6 | 116 | (7.5) | 41 | (2.3) | 157 | (4.7) | |||
7 | 266 | (17.1) | 76 | (4.3) | 342 | (10.3) | |||
8 | 264 | (17.0) | 28 | (1.6) | 292 | (8.8) | |||
Total | 1,457 | (93.8) | 1,620 | (91.6) | 3,077 | (92.6) | |||
Chen et al. (2009) | |||||||||
1 | 41 | (2.6) | 393 | (22.2) | 434 | (13.1) | |||
2 | 51 | (3.3) | 166 | (9.4) | 217 | (6.5) | |||
3 | 16 | (1.0) | 56 | (3.2) | 72 | (2.2) | |||
4 | 18 | (1.2) | 60 | (3.4) | 78 | (2.3) | |||
5 | 172 | (11.1) | 187 | (10.6) | 359 | (10.8) | |||
6 | 582 | (37.4) | 432 | (24.4) | 1,014 | (30.5) | |||
7 | 98 | (6.3) | 43 | (2.4) | 141 | (4.2) | |||
8 | 179 | (11.5) | 14 | (0.8) | 193 | (5.8) | |||
Total | 1,157 | (74.4) | 1,351 | (76.4) | 2,508 | (75.4) | |||
Lin et al. (2017) | |||||||||
1 | 27 | (1.7) | 140 | (7.9) | 167 | (5.0) | |||
2 | 17 | (1.1) | 174 | (9.8) | 191 | (5.7) | |||
3 | 11 | (0.7) | 74 | (4.2) | 85 | (2.6) | |||
4 | 21 | (1.3) | 114 | (6.4) | 135 | (4.1) | |||
5 | 103 | (6.6) | 268 | (15.2) | 371 | (11.2) | |||
6 | 425 | (27.3) | 488 | (27.6) | 913 | (27.5) | |||
7 | 92 | (5.9) | 164 | (9.3) | 256 | (7.7) | |||
8 | 343 | (22.0) | 135 | (7.6) | 478 | (14.4) | |||
Total | 1,039 | (66.6) | 1,557 | (88.0) | 2,596 | (78.2) | |||
For this study | |||||||||
1 | 38 | (2.4) | 301 | (17.0) | 339 | (10.2) | |||
2 | 78 | (5.0) | 409 | (23.1) | 487 | (14.7) | |||
3 | 118 | (7.6) | 218 | (12.3) | 336 | (10.1) | |||
4 | 167 | (10.7) | 323 | (18.3) | 490 | (14.7) | |||
5 | 223 | (14.3) | 162 | (9.2) | 385 | (11.6) | |||
6 | 189 | (12.1) | 124 | (7.0) | 313 | (9.4) | |||
7 | 313 | (20.1) | 119 | (6.7) | 432 | (13.0) | |||
8 | 352 | (22.6) | 45 | (2.5) | 397 | (11.9) | |||
Total | 1,478 | (94.8) | 1,701 | (96.1) | 3,179 | (95.6) |