TABLE 1.

Participants characteristics.

Characteristic	Variable	Cameroon		Senegal
		n	%	n	%
Age group (years)†	≤ 29	1597	39.89	1397	41.27
	30–39	1131	26.32	927	19.63
	40–49	594	13.82	660	13.97
	50–59	384	8.94	497	10.52
	60–69	314	7.31	408	8.64
	≥ 70	160	3.72	282	5.97
Sex	Male	1769	42.42	1493	36.14
	Female	2411	57.58	2678	63.86
Highest level of education	Never went to school	548	12.87	1650	37.14
	Primary	1018	23.92	1107	26.00
	Secondary	1811	43.80	953	26.47
	University or other‡ or technical college	803	19.41	461	10.40
Relative wealth quintile	Q1–Q2 (poorest)	1324	31.65	706	17.19
	Q3- Q4- Q5 (wealthiest)	2856	68.35	3465	82.81

^†, For Cameroon, the first age group start from 21–29 years and for Senegal 20–29 years;

^‡, Only 1 person answered ‘other’ therefore we will refer to this category as ‘university’ in the rest of the paper.