Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of participants
| |
Urban (N = 125) |
Rural (N = 81) |
χ2 |
p |
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | (%) | N | (%) | ||||
| Gender |
|
|
|
|
3.462 |
0.063 |
|
| · Male |
58 |
(46.4) |
27 |
(33.3) |
|
|
|
| · Female |
67 |
(53.6) |
54 |
(66.7) |
|
|
|
| Occupation at this moment (N = 204) |
|
|
|
|
9.932 |
0.007 |
|
| · Employed |
30 |
(24.0) |
8 |
(9.9) |
|
|
|
| · Unemployed |
59 |
(47.2) |
55 |
(67.9) |
|
|
|
| · Pensioner |
36 |
(28.8) |
18 |
(22.2) |
|
|
|
| Source of budget (N = 180) |
|
|
|
|
45.795 |
0.000 |
|
| · Labour |
45 |
(41.3) |
7 |
(9.9) |
|
|
|
| · Pension |
35 |
(32.1) |
18 |
(25.4) |
|
|
|
| · Partner and/or children |
19 |
(17.4) |
11 |
(15.5) |
|
|
|
| · Family and/or friends |
5 |
(4.6) |
7 |
(9.0) |
|
|
|
| · Grants† |
5 |
(4.6) |
28 |
(39.4) |
|
|
|
| |
Mean±SD (range) |
Mean±SD (range) |
U |
z |
p |
||
| Age‡ |
53.5±11.0 (37–80) |
49.5±9.3 (37–76) |
3989.0 |
−2.57 |
0.010 |
||
| Weekly available budget§ (N = 174) |
185±122.3 (0–800) |
128±75.0 (0–235) |
2779.5 |
−2.18 |
0.029 |
||
| · Employed (N = 36) |
271±132 (50–800) |
62±33 (30–100) |
|
|
0.000 |
||
| · Unemployed (N = 88) |
124±132 (0–500) |
112±31 (0–235) |
|
|
0.370 |
||
| · Pensioner (N = 50) | 192±50 (50–300) | 202±31 (90–200) | 0.627 | ||||
† Grants included grants for children and disability grants.
‡ Age in years; §Weekly available budget in South African Rand.