Table 1.
General demographic characteristics of the MSMa participants in Maanshan, China
| Variable | HIV-negative [M(P25,P75)]/[n (%)] |
HIV-positive [M(P25,P75)]/[n (%)] |
χ2/Z | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 816(87.4) | 118(12.6) | |||
| Age (years old) | 30.3(24.0,34.0) | 31.8(26.0,36.3) | 2.66b | 0.008 | |
| Household registration | 1.56c | 0.458 | |||
| Maanshan City | 601(87.1) | 89(12.9) | |||
| Other cities of Anhui Province | 122(90.4) | 13(9.6) | |||
| Other Provinces | 93(85.3) | 16(14.7) | |||
| Ethnicity | 0.03c | 0.871 | |||
| Han | 801(87.4) | 115(12.6) | |||
| Other nations | 15(83.3) | 3(16.7) | |||
| Occupation | 36.45c | < 0.001 | |||
| Student | 146(95.4) | 7(4.6) | |||
| Farmer | 47(97.9) | 1(2.1) | |||
| Laborer | 263(88.6) | 34(11.4) | |||
| Public institutions | 94(93.1) | 7(6.9) | |||
| Freelancer | 223(79.4) | 58(20.6) | |||
| othersd | 43(79.6) | 11(20.4) | |||
| Education level | 9.31c | 0.025 | |||
| Primary school or less | 133(85.8) | 22(14.2) | |||
| Junior high school | 212(83.5) | 42(16.5) | |||
| Senior high school/Technical secondary school | 243(87.4) | 35(12.6) | |||
| Bachelor degree or above | 228(92.3) | 19(7.7) | |||
| Marital status | 3.04c | 0.219 | |||
| Unmarried | 435(87.5) | 62(12.5) | |||
| Married | 304(88.6) | 39(11.4) | |||
| Divorced/widower | 77(81.9) | 17(18.1) | |||
| Monthly income (yuan/RMB) | 16.21c | 0.001 | |||
| < 1 000 | 151(93.2) | 11(6.8) | |||
| 1 000–2 999 | 50(76.9) | 15(23.1) | |||
| 3 000–4 999 | 328(84.5) | 60(15.5) | |||
| ≥ 5 000 | 287(90.0) | 32(10.0) |
a Men who have sex with men; b Mann-Whitney U test; c Chi-square test; d Sex workers, unemployed and retired people