Table 2.
Participants’ sociodemographic characteristics by presence of PAD
| Characteristics | PAD (n = 88) | No PAD (n = 2691) | Significance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 45 | 3.3 | 1338 | 96.7 | p = 0.8 |
| Female | 43 | 3.1 | 1353 | 96.9 | |
| Sector | |||||
| Rural | 65 | 2.9 | 2163 | 97.1 | p = 0.1 |
| Urban | 23 | 4.1 | 528 | 95.9 | |
| Ethnicity | p = 0.9 | ||||
| Sinhala | 86 | 3.2 | 2615 | 96.8 | |
| Others* | 02 | 2.6 | 76 | 97.4 | |
| Religion | p < 0.05 | ||||
| Buddhist | 66 | 2.8 | 2255 | 97.2 | |
| Christians | 22 | 5.5 | 378 | 94.5 | |
| Level of education | p < 0.01 | ||||
| GCE O/L not completed | 39 | 4.6 | 853 | 95.4 | |
| GCE O/L completed and above | 49 | 2.7 | 1838 | 97.3 | |
| Monthly family income Rs: | p < 0.01 | ||||
| <30,000 | 56 | 4.4 | 1227 | 95.6 | |
| ≥30,000 - | 32 | 2.1 | 1464 | 97.9 | |
*Tamils and Muslims; GCE O/L: General certificate of education ordinary level