Table 2.

County-level association between HIV/AIDS diagnosis rate categories (quartiles) and socioeconomic disadvantage in South Carolina by gender, 2006–2008

^aPercent of the civilian labor force that is unemployed

^bPercent of the population for whom poverty status is determined to be living below the federal poverty level

^cThe Townsend index is a composite measure based on four component indicators—unemployment (percent of the civilian labor force without jobs), vehicle access (percent of households with no vehicle available), household tenure (percent of households that rent rather than own a home), and household crowding (percent of households with more than one person per room). Social deprivation scores for South Carolina counties were calculated by deriving standardized z-scores based on each of the four component index distributions and by summing the resulting z-scores for each county.

HIV = human immunodeficiency virus

AIDS = acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

OR = odds ratio

CI = confidence interval

AOR = adjusted odds ratio