Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics and proportion of S. mansoni infection in different categories of the study subjects in Jimma town, 2007.
| Characteristics | Total (%) | Number (%) infected with S. mansoni |
Chi-square value |
P- value | |
| Residence site | |||||
| Kito | 78 (15.1) | 7(9.0) | 14.4 | 0.001 | |
| Chore | 255(49.3) | 77(30.2) | |||
| Awetu | 184 (35.6) | 52(28.3) | |||
| Age (years) | |||||
| < 10 | 148 (28.6) | 26 (17.6) | 27.7 | 0.000 | |
| 10 – 19 | 135 (26.1) | 57 (42.2) | |||
| 20 – 29 | 76 (14.7) | 20 (26.3) | |||
| 30– 39 | 63 (12.2) | 10 (15.9) | |||
| 40– 49 | 45 (8.7) | 12 (26.7) | |||
| ≥ 50 | 50 (9.7) | 11 (22.0) | |||
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 350 (67.7) | 79 (22.6) | 7.8 | 0.005 | |
| Male | 167 (32.3) | 57 (34.1) | |||
| Religion | |||||
| Orthodox | 248 (48) | 58(23.4) | 6.4 | 0.040 | |
| Muslim | 160 (30.9) | 39(24.4) | |||
| Protestant | 107 (21.1) | 39(35.8) | |||