#nestar

I got playing around with an old survey from 1996 about sun exposure. I was using a tool called Nestar which allows me (and only me at my institution) to access the DLI data and even do some analysis. I usually use SDA, but I thought I'd try something new. 

The sun exposure survey covers a wide range of issues related to exposure to and protection against the sun. Here's what I discovered:

Men are (or were in 1996) much more likely to NEVER wear sunscreen, on both their faces (48.1%) and their bodies (46.3%). This compared to women, 23.4 and 24.2% of whom don't ever wear sunscreen on their face and bodies, respectively.

The prairie region boasts the highest level of sunscreen non-use (41.9%). Ontarians were the most likely to always wear sunscreen on their bodies (19.2%).

Nearly 60 percent of people (59.2%) who earn less than $10k a year will never put on sunscreen. The likelihood that someone would wear sunscreen on their body seems to increase with their income (see chart), so that at $80k+ people are slightly more likely  to wear sunscreen all the time than to never wear it at all.