Table 1.
Distribution of cardiovascular risk factors according by socioeconomic status (SES)
| Components of SES | SES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SES I Low % | SES II Lower middle % | SES III Middle % | SES IV High % | ||
| Education (number of years) | Illiterate | 52.2 | 33.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| <5 | 45.5 | 52.7 | 19.1 | 3.4 | |
| 5-9 | 2.1 | 12.1 | 31.0 | 20.0 | |
| 10-12 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 35.2 | 47.6 | |
| >12 | 0.0 | .0 | 14.2 | 29.1 | |
| Job | Student/Unemployed/ Homemaker | 65.3 | 64.2 | 49.9 | 46.2 |
| Retired | 11.1 | 7.6 | 2.2 | 2.0 | |
| Manual | 20.4 | 23.9 | 31.2 | 25.9 | |
| Non manual | 3.2 | 4.3 | 16.8 | 25.9 | |
| Income | <100 | 35.7 | 22.9 | 11.7 | 4.6 |
| 100-300 | 60.2 | 63.1 | 63.2 | 47.3 | |
| 300-500 | 3.7 | 12.7 | 19.8 | 32.8 | |
| 500-1000 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 4.7 | 12.5 | |
| >1,000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 2.8 | |
| Marital status | Widowed | 12.6 | 9.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Divorced | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
| Single | 0.0 | 0.4 | 23.3 | 34.4 | |
| Married | 87.1 | 90.1 | 75.6 | 65.0 | |
| Car ownership | Yes/No | 21.5 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 57.9 |
| Number of travels (per year) | 0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | 0.0 | 62.6 | 0.0 | 49.4 | |
| ≥2 | 0.0 | 37.4 | 0.0 | 50.6 | |
| Kind of travel | No Travel | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | .0 |
| National | 0.0 | 90.8 | 0.0 | 94.3 | |
| International | 0.0 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 1.9 | |
| Both | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 3.7 | |
| Have a personal computer | Yes | 13.0 | 19.0 | 34.3 | 57.2 |
| Number of children | Tertiles 3 | 67.1 | 54.1 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| Tertiles 2 | 27.2 | 32.5 | 31.8 | 25.4 | |
| Tertiles 1 | 5.7 | 13.4 | 63.7 | 70.1 | |
| Home ownership | Private | 88.7 | 84.8 | 68.7 | 73.6 |
| Rental | 10.0 | 12.4 | 24.1 | 20.5 | |
| Other | 1.2 | 2.4 | 6.7 | 4.4 | |
| Multiple jobs | Yes | 1.0 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 4.5 |