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. 2024 Sep 6;77(4):e20230339. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2023-0339

Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics compared to access to social media. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022.

Variables Television p value2 Social network p value2 Radio p value2
Total n(%) No access N = 581 WITH access N = 3321 No access N = 2311 WITH access N = 1591 No access N = 2991 WITH access N = 911
Sex 0.889 0.044* 0.004*
Feminine 293 (75.1) 44 (75.9) 249 (75.0) 182 (78.8) 111 (69.8) 235 (78.6) 58 (63.7)
Masculine 97 (24.9) 14 (24.1) 83 (25.0) 49 (21.2) 48 (30.2) 64 (21.4) 33 (36.3)
Age <0.001* <0.001* 0.088
60 – 65 134 (34.4) 32 (55.2) 102 (30.7) 73 (31.6) 61 (38.4) 107 (35.8) 27 (29.7)
66 – 75 138 (35.4) 18 (31.0) 120 (36.1) 67 (29.0) 71 (44.7) 97 (32.4) 41 (45.1)
≥76 118 (30.3) 8 (13.8) 110 (33.1) 91 (39.4) 27 (17.0) 95 (31.8) 23 (25.3)
Marital status 0.093 0.017* 0.070
Married 199 (51.0) 23 (39.7) 176 (53.0) 104 (45.0) 95 (59.7) 151 (50.5) 48 (52.7)
Widower 73 (18.7) 10 (17.2) 63 (19.0) 53 (22.9) 20 (12.6) 54 (18.1) 19 (20.9)
Separated 67 (17.2) 16 (27.6) 51 (15.4) 43 (18.6) 24 (15.1) 59 (19.7) 8 (8.8)
Single 51 (13.1) 9 (15.5) 42 (12.7) 31 (13.4) 20 (12.6) 35 (11.7) 16 (17.6)
Cohabitants 0.176 0.299 0.192
None 71 (18.2) 15 (25.9) 56 (16.9) 46 (19.9) 25 (15.7) 55 (18.4) 16 (17.6)
1 person 145 (37.2) 15 (25.9) 130 (39.2) 89 (38.5) 56 (35.2) 119 (39.8) 26 (28.6)
2 people 93 (23.8) 16 (27.6) 77 (23.2) 55 (23.8) 38 (23.9) 66 (22.1) 27 (29.7)
≥3 people 81 (20.8) 12 (20.7) 69 (20.8) 41 (17.7) 40 (25.2) 59 (19.7) 22 (24.2)
Property type 0.009 0.478 0.353
Own 319 (81.8) 40 (69.0) 279 (84.0) 185 (80.1) 134 (84.3) 241 (80.6) 78 (85.7)
Leased 46 (11.8) 14 (24.1) 32 (9.6) 31 (13.4) 15 (9.4) 36 (12.0) 10 (11.0)
of family 25 (6.4) 4 (6.9) 21 (6.3) 15 (6.5) 10 (6.3) 22 (7.4) 3 (3.3)
Education level <0.001|* <0.001 0.004*
Illiterate 9 (2.3) 0 (0.0) 9 (2.7) 8 (3.5) 1 (0.6) 4 (1.3) 5 (5.5)
Complete or incomplete 124 (31.8) 11 (19.0) 113 (34.0) 98 (42.4) 26 (16.4) 84 (28.1) 40 (44.0)
basic education
High school 108 (27.7) 8 (13.8) 100 (30.1) 59 (25.5) 49 (30.8) 86 (28.8) 22 (24.2)
Graduation 70 (17.9) 14 (24.1) 56 (16.9) 27 (11.7) 43 (27.0) 58 (19.4) 12 (13.2)
Postgraduate 79 (20.3) 25 (43.1) 54 (16.3) 39 (16.9) 40 (25.2) 67 (22.4) 12 (13.2)

1 n (%); 2 Pearson’s Chi-squared test; Fisher’s exact test; *p value < 0,05; sd = standard deviation.