Table 3. Life environmental qualities of study subjects.
Pandemic period* | Post-pandemic period* | Total | p value | |
N = 211 (69.9%) | N = 91 (30.3%) | N = 302 (100.0%) | ||
Location † | 0.144 | |||
All public services | 187 (88.6) | 75 (82.4) | 262 (86.8) | |
Partial public services | 24 (11.4) | 16 (17.6) | 40 (13.2) | |
Housing | 0.011 | |||
Borrow without any payment | 84 (39.8) | 28 (30.8) | 112 (37.1) | |
Rent | 39 (18.5) | 31 (34.1) | 70 (23.2) | |
Pay for credit | 16 (7.6) | 2 (2.2) | 18 (6.0) | |
Own | 72 (34.1) | 30 (33.0) | 102 (33.8) | |
House construction material | <0.001 | |||
Concrete | 179 (84.8) | 70 (76.9) | 249 (82.5) | |
Tinplate | 3 (1.4) | 12 (13.2) | 15 (5.0) | |
Concrete and tinplate | 29 (13.7) | 9 (9.9) | 38 (12.6) | |
Number of rooms in a house | 0.003 | |||
≤2 | 85 (40.3) | 64 (70.3) | 149 (49.3) | |
3–5 | 121 (57.3) | 26 (28.6) | 147 (48.7) | |
≥6 | 5 (2.4) | 1 (1.1) | 6 (2.0) | |
Number of individuals in a house | <0.001 | |||
≤2 | 13 (6.2) | 24 (26.4) | 37 (12.3) | |
3–5 | 167 (79.5) | 57 (62.6) | 224 (74.4) | |
≥6 | 30 (14.3) | 10 (11.0) | 40 (13.3) | |
Number of individuals per a room, mean (range) | 2.5 (0.29–8.0) | 3.0 (0.67–9.0) | 2.5 (0.29–9.0) | <0.001 |
Pandemic period, between April 2009 and July 2010; Post-pandemic period, between August 2010 and the end of survey period.
Location was defined by the accessibility of public service which is also followed by the Social Gap Index.