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. 2010 Aug 27;10:518. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-518

Table 1.

Sample characteristics (N = 1228)

Characteristics Number (%)
Demographic
Number of women 622 (50.7)
Age
 Mean age (low-high range) 33 years (18-81 years)
 Age 18-24 years 357 (30.0)
 Age 25-49 years 706 (59.3)
 Age 50-74 years 121 (10.2)
 Age 75+ years 6 (0.5)
Religion:
 Christian 1129 (91.9)
 Muslim 92 (7.5)
 other 7 (0.6)
Ethnicity:
 Bari Speaking 605 (49.3)
 Muru 148 (12.1)
 Madi 72 (5.9)
 other 403 (32.8)
Marital status:
 married 897 (73.2)
 single 248 (20.2)
 divorced/separated (includes forcefully separated) 24 (2.0)
 widowed 56 (4.6)
Education level:
 never attended school 326 26.5
 completed or partially primary school 387 31.5
 completed or partially completed secondary school 378 30.8
 completed post-secondary school (e.g. college) 137 11.2

Current/recent living conditions
 no soap currently in household 792 64.7
 drinking from unprotected water source 428 34.9
 lack food or water (in past 12 months) 358 29.2
 lack medical care when ill (in past 12 months) 301 24.5
 lack shelter/housing (in past 12 months) 161 13.1
 Currently internally displaced persons 153 (12.6)

Lifetime exposure to violent and traumatic events
 unnatural death of family/friend 753 59.9
 combat situation 632 51.5
 murder of family/friend 610 49.7
 forcibly displaced (internally displaced or refugee) 441 35.9
 close to death 431 35.1
 forced separation from family 318 25.9
 serious injury 316 25.7
 tortured or beaten 248 20.2
 forced isolation from others 231 18.8
 murder of stranger or strangers 228 18.6
 forced to accept thoughts against will 171 13.9
 imprisonment 168 13.7
 being abducted or kidnapped 102 8.3
 rape or sexual abuse 82 6.7