Table 2.
Prevalence of preventive practices for residential fires, burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, by type of heating sources and appliances, United States, 2002 (unweighted n = 1003)a
| Primary heating sources | Supplemental heating sources | Any gas appliance |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas | Electric heat | Fuel oil | Space heater | Kerosene heater | Fireplace/woodstove | |||||||||
| Safety practices | nb | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
n | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
n | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
n | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
n | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
n | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
n | Weighted percentage (95% CI) |
| Fire extinguisher | 397 | 70.3 (66.3–74.3) | 191 | 61.9 (56.1–67.7) | 86 | 76.3 (67.6–85.0) | 154 | 70.6 (64.1–77.1) | 30 | 87.9 (76.7–99.0) | 270 | 80.2 (75.7–84.7) | 372 | 68.4 (64.2–7) |
| Smoke alarm | 532 | 96.8 (95.3–98.3) | 287 | 97.3 (95.5–99.2) | 105 | 97.7 (95.0–100.3) | 201 | 95.3 (92.3–98.2) | 33 | 98.3 (95.1–101.6) | 326 | 97.9 (96.3–99.5) | 503 | 95.8 (94.0–9 |
| Checked at least annuallyc | 444 | 80.8 (77.4–84.2) | 238 | 80.0 (75.3–84.8) | 88 | 79.5 (71.4–87.6) | 161 | 76.3 (70.4–82.2) | 31 | 92.0 (82.9–101.0) | 271 | 81.1 (76.8–85.4) | 415 | 79.0 (75.4–8 |
| Smoke alarm on each levelc | 426 | 77.5 (73.9–81.1) | 261 | 89.2 (85.7–92.7) | 74 | 69.2 (60.2–78.2) | 154 | 72.7 (66.5–78.9) | 28 | 82.1 (68.8–95.4) | 259 | 76.9 (72.2–81.6) | 401 | 76.3 (72.5–8 |
| Fire escape pland | 236 | 48.4 (43.7–53.1) | 111 | 47.9 (41.1–54.6) | 54 | 64.3 (53.5–75.1) | 85 | 48.3 (40.6–56.1) | 22 | 67.1 (49.8–84.5) | 186 | 61.4 (55.7–67.2) | 225 | 48.2 (43.3–5 |
| Carbon monoxide detector | 220 | 38.4 (34.3–42.6) | 39 | 13.3 (9.3–17.2) | 33 | 28.8 (20.1–37.5) | 64 | 29.0 (22.8–35.2) | 7 | 20.3 (6.7–33.9) | 123 | 36.4 (31.0–41.7) | 192 | 35.2 (31.0–3 |
a
Percentages weighted by presence of multiple phone lines, any person aged ≤6 years, any person aged ≥70 years, and tenure (owner-occupied vs rental) in the overall population of U.S. households, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
b
Unweighted number of respondents.
c
Restricted to those who reported the presence of at least one smoke alarm.
d
Restricted to those with more than one person living in their home (n = 814).
CI, confidence interval.