Table 2.

Analysis of variance for BV scores by ethnic and religious groups


	Variable	n	Mean	Standard deviation	95% CI for mean		F statistic^a (df)	p-value
					Lower band	Upper band

Ethnicity	Malay	60	62.12	8.689	59.87	64.36	16.695 (2, 190)	<0.0001
	Chinese	64	51.73	11.669	48.82	54.65
	Indian	69	58.75	10.393	56.26	61.25
	Total	193	57.42	11.028	55.85	58.99
Religious group	Does not observe a religion/atheist	11	41.18	11.669	33.34	49.02	16.673 (5, 187)	<0.0001
	Moslem	63	61.31	9.053	59.05	63.57
	Buddhist	31	48.35	9.489	44.87	51.84
	Hindu	50	58.56	9.251	55.98	61.13
	Christian	27	60.11	8.069	56.92	63.30
	Roman Catholic	11	63.45	10.949	56.10	70.81
	Total	193	57.42	11.028	55.85	58.99

^a One-way ANOVA test