Table 1. Demographic characteristics of women of different willingness towards cervical cancer screening (n = 5929) (From χ2 test).
Demographic characteristic | Frequency of women willing to participate in screening | Frequency of women not willing to participate in screening | Total frequency | P value |
Age(years) | 0.00 | |||
≤45 | 2531(42.7%) | 977(16.5%) | 3508(59.2%) | |
>45 | 1618(27.3%) | 803(13.5%) | 2421(40.8%) | |
Education status | 0.00 | |||
Primary or below | 2872(48.4%) | 1365(23.0%) | 4237(71.5%) | |
Secondary or above | 1277(21.5%) | 415(7.0%) | 1692(28.5%) | |
Income (US dollars per year) | 0.68 | |||
≤560 | 1150(19.4%) | 484(8.2%) | 1634(27.6%) | |
>560 | 2999(50.6%) | 1296(21.9%) | 4295(72.4%) | |
Family history of cancer | 0.00 | |||
Positive | 507(8.6%) | 153(2.6%) | 660(11.1%) | |
Negative | 3642(61.4%) | 1642(27.4%) | 5269(88.9%) |