. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 27.

Published in final edited form as: Environ Urban. 2002 Apr;14(1):203–217. doi: 10.1177/095624780201400117

Table 1.

Comparing rural and urban household composition

	(A) - % all households			(B) -% non single-person households
	Rural (n=7788)	Urban (n=6047)^*	X²	Rural (n=7651)	Urban (n=3346)	X²
Female-headed	30	24	61.3^***	30	26	17.9^***
Female adults only
No males > 15 years	16	12	44.1^***	15	10	49.3^***
No males > 20 years	20	15	57.9^***	20	12	101.9^***
Include children
Aged <15 years	84	28	4428.9^***	88	51	1784.8^***
Aged <10 years	80	26	4034.0^***	84	47	1604.8^***

^***

p < 0.00001

96% total peri-urban households; 4% (n=412) not included because age and/or sex information missing for at least one member of the household.