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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2011 May 5;24(27):671–708. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.27

Table 6. Among MDICP-3 respondents who were interviewed and tested for HIV and who performed any labor activity or specific activities, percent who were HIV positive, who were HIV positive and often ill, who were currently ill, whose spouse was also currently ill or who lived in households in which other households members were currently ill, and who lived in households in which at least one death of a dependent or one prime-age adult death had occurred in the previous five years1: Currently married women.

Performed labor activities in group j
Performed any labor
activity

Agricultural
labor
Non-agricultural
labor2
Domestic
labor

No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
HIV status3 [13] [1055] [624] [444] [906] [162] [18] [1050]
R is HIV+ 23.1** 6.7** 9.1*** 3.8*** 6.8 7.4 16.7* 6.8*
R is often ill 38.5 21.0 18. 4** 25.2** 21.6 18.8 44.4** 20.8**
R is HIV+ & often ill 15.4** 1.7** 2.6** 0.9** 17.7 2.5 11.1* 1.7*
Current HH illness4 [13] [1025] [606] [432] [883] [155] [18] [1020]
R is currently ill 61.5*** 13.6*** 14.2*** 14.1*** 14.6 11.6 55.6*** 13.4***
R & S are currently ill 0.0*** 4.0*** 3.0*** 5.3*** 3.7 5.2 0.0*** 4.0***
Others are currently ill 15.4*** 18.3*** 24.5*** 23.6*** 18.1 19.4 16.7*** 18.3***
No one is currently ill 23.1*** 64.1*** 68.3*** 56.9*** 63.5 63.9 27.8*** 64.2***
Deaths in the HH in past 5 years5 [13] [988] [582] [419] [853] [148] [17] [984]
At least one dependent death6 23.1 13.7 14.1 13.6 14.4** 10.8** 17.7 13.8
At least one prime-age adult death7 7.7 6.1 5.7 6.7 5.4** 10.1** 5.9 6.1
No deaths 69.2 80.2 80.2 79.7 80.2** 79.1** 76.5 80.1

Notes:

See Appendix 2 for details on the activities included in each group. R: respondent; S: spouse; Others: other HH members (excluding respondent and spouse).

1

Sample sizes are indicated in parentheses above each set of percentages. For each set, we also indicate next to the percentages the significance of chi-square tests for differences between those who performed any activity or specific activities, and those who did not (*p<0.1; **p<0.05; *** p<0.001).

2

Includes non-agricultural self-employment and wage employment.

3

Sample sizes exclude respondents with indeterminate HIV test results.

4

Sample sizes exclude 36 respondents for who did not provide information about current illness of household members.

5

Sample sizes exclude 73 respondents who could not indicate the age at death of recently deceased household members.

6

Includes only deaths of children less than 10 years old and deaths of adults age 60 years or older.

7

Deaths of adults 10-59 years old that occurred alone or in combination with deaths of children less than 10 years old.