Current poultry workers were recruited in a six-county area of western North Carolina, including Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Surry, Wilkes, and Yadkin Counties. This region has a total of five processing plants belonging to three different companies. To be eligible, a respondent had to be 18 years of age, currently employed as a worker in a poultry processing plant, and of Latino ethnicity. The sampling plan called for 100 males and 100 females, with 100 located in Wilkes County, 50 in Burke, Alexander, or Caldwell; and 50 in Surry or Yadkin Counties, based on the estimated relative sizes of the immigrant poultryworker population living in the counties. In the absence of a.
