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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2012 Dec 15;380(9859):2129–2143. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61680-8

Table 1:

Characteristics of the study population

Bangladesh (n=2610) Indonesia (n=2430) Peru (n=2926) Tanzania (n=2613) USA (n=3323) Web survey (n=16 328)

Age
18–29 years 818 (31%) 678 (28%) 942 (32%) 978 (37%) 181 (5%) 5186 (32%)
30–49 years 1146 (44%) 1253 (52%) 1354 (46%) 1046 (40%) 870 (26%) 6660 (41%)
50–69 years 505 (19%) 423 (17%) 629 (21%) 446 (17%) 1412 (42%) 4127 (25%)
≥70 years 141 (5·5%) 76 (3%) 1 (<1%) 143 (5%) 852 (26%) 355 (2%)
Unknown 0 0 0 0 8 (<1%) 0
Sex
Men 1507 (58%) 1256 (52%) 1543 (53%) 1508 (58%) 1230 (37%) 5268 (32%)
Women 1103 (42%) 1174 (48%) 1383 (47%) 1105 (42%) 2092 (63%) 11 011 (67%)
Unknown 0 0 0 0 1 (<1%) 49 (<1%)
Education
None 1125 (43%) 160 (7%) 32 (1%) 917 (35%) 8 (<1%) 59 (<1%)
Primary 823 (32%) 971 (40%) 302 (10%) 689 (26%) 75 (2%) 11 (<1%)
Secondary 564 (22%) 442 (18%) 1378 (47%) 978 (37%) 1162 (35%) 1035 (6%)
Higher 98 (4%) 857 (35%) 1214 (41%) 29 (1%) 2063 (62%) 15 173 (93%)
Unknown 0 0 0 0 15 (<1%) 50 (<1%)