Table 1.
General characteristics of the study population (N = 2,014)
| Place of residence | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candelaria | Cooperativa | Caña de Azúcar | Total | |||||
| n | Percent | n | Percent | n | Percent | n | Percent | |
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| 5–10 | 119 | 24.8 | 144 | 24.0 | 195 | 20.9 | 458 | 22.8 |
| 11–15 | 96 | 20.0 | 110 | 18.3 | 204 | 21.9 | 411 | 20.4 |
| 16–20 | 85 | 17.7 | 117 | 19.5 | 188 | 20.2 | 390 | 19.4 |
| 21–25 | 89 | 18.5 | 105 | 17.5 | 148 | 15.9 | 342 | 17.0 |
| 26–30 | 91 | 19.0 | 125 | 20.8 | 197 | 21.1 | 413 | 20.5 |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 226 | 47.1 | 233 | 38.8 | 404 | 43.4 | 864 | 42.9 |
| Female | 254 | 52.9 | 368 | 61.2 | 528 | 56.7 | 1,150 | 57.1 |
| Households | 210 | 25.0 | 267 | 31.7 | 363 | 43.2 | 840 | 100 |
| Number of persons per household* | 5.68 | 1–17 | 6.01 | 1–21 | 6.07 | 1–15 | 5.96 | 1–21 |
| Number of people living in houses with ≤ 4 rooms | 117 | 25.6 | 153 | 25.5 | 266 | 28.9 | 536 | 27.1 |
| Crowding† (people/room ≥ 1.5) | 117 | 26.0 | 152 | 26.5 | 311 | 35.3 | 580 | 30.5 |
*
Geometric mean (range).
†
Crowding is defined as the number of people in a household divided by the number of rooms of the household. This variable reports the number of people (and the proportion) who live in houses with high crowding defined as ≥ 1.5 persons per room.