Table 4.

Multivariate analysis of sociodemographic characteristics of study participants.

Variable	Total (N = 336)	Typhoid fever positive (N = 70)	p value	OR (95% CI)
Gender
Female	196 (58.33)	53 (27.17)	0.817	0.514 (0.445–1.501)
Male	140 (41.66)	17 (12.14)	—	1
Age groups (years)
[1–10]	195 (58.03)	41 (21.02)	0.545	0.414 (0.017–10.328)
[11–20]	59 (17.55)	13 (22.03)	0.591	0.889 (0.041–19.431)
[21–30]	33 (9.82)	8 (24.24)	0.94	1.313 (0.063–27.580)
[31–40]	28 (8.33)	5 (17.85)	0.861	1.646 (0.084–32.179)
[41–50]	13 (3.86)	2 (15.38)	0.742	2.845 (0.105–77.173)
[51–60]	8 (2.38)	1 (12.50)	0.535	1
Level of education			—
Primary	137 (40.77)	30 (15.30)	0.779	1.242 (0.274–5.621)
Secondary	153 (45.53)	30 (19.60)	0.578	1.533 (0.341–6.892)
Higher	22 (6.54)	6 (27.27)	0.959	1.053 (0.144–7.700)
No level	24 (7.14)	4 (16.66)	—	1
Marital status
Married	61 (18.15)	16 (11.76)	0.454	0.441 (0.052–3.756)
Single	224 (66.66)	46 (30.06)	0.534	0.49 (0.052–4.643)
Divorced	32 (9.52)	5 (22.72)	0.991	0.988 (0.124–7.895)
Widow	19 (5.65)	3 (12.50)	—	1
Occupation
Student	218 (64.88)	35 (16.05)	0.779	3.974 (0.420–37.576)
Private sector	94 (27.97)	30 (31.91)	0.578	0.418 (0.046–3.768)
Civil servant	12 (3.57)	2 (16.66)	0.959	1.076 (0.057–20.302)
House wife	12 (3.57)	3 (25)	—	1
Residence
Urban area	216 (64.28)	46 (21.29)	0.730	1.135 (0.554–2.323)
Rural area	120 (35.71)	24 (20)	—	1

^∗ Values in brackets are in percentage (%). In this table, the denominator for column three corresponds to the total of each variable.