Table 1.
Characteristics of study participants in Can Tho, 2005.
| Men (N = 911) | Women (N = 1067) | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | n | % | n | ||
| Age | |||||
| 25–34 | 17.2 | 157 | 18.8 | 201 | |
| 35–44 | 26.9 | 245 | 27.4 | 292 | |
| 45–54 | 29.6 | 270 | 28.2 | 301 | |
| 55–64 | 26.2 | 239 | 25.6 | 273 | 0.003 |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Vietnamese | 92.2 | 839 | 91.0 | 970 | |
| Chinese | 1.5 | 14 | 2.3 | 24 | |
| Khmer | 6.2 | 56 | 6.8 | 72 | |
| Others | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.059 |
| Education completed | |||||
| < Primary school | 38.0 | 346 | 55.6 | 593 | |
| Primary school | 27.5 | 250 | 21.1 | 225 | |
| Secondary school | 17.8 | 162 | 11.9 | 127 | |
| High school* | 10.9 | 99 | 7.2 | 77 | |
| College/University† | 5.8 | 53 | 4.1 | 44 | 0.002 |
| Employment status | |||||
| Employed | 13.1 | 119 | 7.4 | 79 | |
| Self-employed | 62.4 | 568 | 50.2 | 535 | |
| Non-paid/student | 0.6 | 5 | 0.8 | 8 | |
| Homemaker | 0.8 | 7 | 25.5 | 272 | |
| Retired/unemployed‡ | 7.0 | 64 | 4.7 | 50 | |
| Unstably employed§ | 16.2 | 147 | 11.4 | 122 | <0.001 |
| Occupation | |||||
| Farmers | 35.9 | 362 | 24.1 | 294 | |
| Industrial workers | 9.4 | 73 | 2.6 | 16 | |
| Clerks | 9.6 | 66 | 7.2 | 58 | |
| Traders | 13.8 | 107 | 23.7 | 227 | |
| Homemakers | 0.0 | 0 | 22.4 | 257 | |
| Others | 31.3 | 302 | 20.0 | 214 | <0.001 |
* High school or equivalent (technical school).
† College or university degree or higher.
‡ Including 12 men and 6 women who were disabled.
§ People who did physical work and got paid on a daily basis.
There were one man and one woman who provided only information on age and sex.