Table 1.
Characteristics of population sample (n = 2477 dyads).
| African (n, %) | 2473 (99.8) |
| isiZulu language (n, %) | 2375 (95.9) |
| Caregiver age (M, SD) | 44.23 (13.87) |
| Caregiver gender, female (n, %) | 2199 (88.8) |
| Child age (M, SD) | 13.57 (2.23) |
| Child gender, female (n, %) | 1334 (53.9) |
| Number of people in household (M, SD) | 6.0 (2.68) |
| Biological parent (n, %) | 1637 (66.1) |
| Caregiver non-AIDS-illness (n, %) | 568 (22.9) |
| Caregiver AIDS-illness (n, %) | 685 (27.7) |
| Child orphaned other causes (n, %) | 306 (12.4) |
| Child orphaned by AIDS (n, %) | 184 (7.4) |