Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of respondents (at month of interview), by gender and testing status
| Female | Male | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never tested | Ever tested | Total | Never tested | Ever tested | Total | |||
| 101 | 181 | 282 | 144 | 175 | 319 | |||
| 35.8% | 64.2% | p-value | 45.1% | 54.9% | p-value | |||
| Mean age in years (standard deviation) | 20.2 | 20.8 | * | 20.6 | 20.4 | 21.0 | ** | 20.7 |
| (1.71) | (1.92) | (1.86) | (1.82) | (1.90) | (1.88) | |||
| % Married | 15.8 | 34.3 | ** | 27.7 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 8.2 | |
| Highest level of education (%) | ||||||||
| None/Primary | 31.7 | 38.1 | 35.8 | 34.7 | 18.9 | ** | 26.0 | |
| Secondary | 64.4 | 58.0 | 60.3 | 61.1 | 74.9 | 68.7 | ||
| Some college | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 6.3 | 5.3 | ||
| % in school | 19.8 | 18.8 | 19.2 | 22.9 | 36.0 | * | 30.1 | |
| % earning an income | 22.8 | 31.5 | 28.4 | 42.4 | 44.0 | 43.3 | ||
| Ethnicity (%) | ||||||||
| Luo | 67.3 | 72.9 | 70.9 | 72.2 | 78.9 | 75.9 | ||
| Luhya | 18.8 | 19.3 | 19.2 | 11.8 | 10.3 | 11.0 | ||
| Other | 13.9 | 7.7 | 9.9 | 16.0 | 10.9 | 13.2 | ||
| Religion (%) | ||||||||
| Catholics | 24.0 | 27.1 | 26.0 | 21.5 | 25.1 | 23.5 | ||
| Protestants | 47.0 | 34.8 | 39.2 | 47.9 | 41.7 | 44.5 | ||
| Pentecostal | 18.0 | 22.1 | 20.6 | 13.2 | 16.6 | 15.1 | ||
| African/Traditional | 9.0 | 9.4 | 9.3 | 11.1 | 6.9 | 8.8 | ||
| Muslims/Other/none | 2.0 | 6.6 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 9.7 | 8.2 | ||
| Median number of HIV tests since age 14 (Range) | 1 (1-10) | 1 (1-18) | ||||||
| Number of HIV tests since age 14 (%) | ||||||||
| One | 56.9 | 62.3 | ||||||
| Two | 27.6 | 20.6 | ||||||
| Three | 7.7 | 9.1 | ||||||
| Four or more | 7.7 | 8.0 | ||||||
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01