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. 2014 Sep 5;14:374. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-374

Table 1.

Sample characteristics

Sample overall Risk game chosen
200/200 100/300 0/400 pfor diff
Sex % Male 50.4 50.2 45.6 67.5 *
Age1 Median age 36.4 38.0 33.0 40.0 **
CI [20.0-63.0] [21.0-63.0] [19.0-64.0] [22.0-64.0]
Marital status % Married 67.4 67.8 64.0 75.0
Education % Less than primary 8.5 7.4 8.8 15.0 *
% Primary 14.3 12.0 20.8 10.0
% Secondary 39.3 39.2 40.8 35.0
% More than secondary 37.9 41.3 29.6 40.0
Employment status2 % Employed full time 28.2 30.5 23.2 27.5 ***
% Employed part time 2.9 3.9 1.6 0.0
% Self-employed 53.7 50.7 59.2 57.5
% Unemployed 15.2 14.9 16.0 15.0
Wealth % Poorest 19.6 18.4 19.2 30.0
% Poorer 20.3 18.4 24.8 20.0
% Middle 19.6 20.1 19.2 17.5
% Richer 20.1 21.9 16.8 17.5
% Richest 20.3 21.2 20.0 15.0
N 448 283 125 40
% Chosen 63.2 27.9 8.9

95% Confidence intervals (CI) in brackets.

*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.10.

1Age distribution differences tested by the Kruskal-Wallis equality-of-populations rank test (p = 0.015).

2 N = 447 due to 1 missing observation.