Table 1.

Prevalence of sociodemographic characteristics of transgender women as compared with MSM participants in three West African nations (N=2246)

	Total		MSM		Transgender women
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ2pa
Median age (IQR)b	23 (21 to 26)		23 (21 to 26)		22.5 (20 to 26)		0.02*
Education completed
Primary school or lower	211	9.5	139	7.8	72	16.1	<0.001***
Secondary/high school	1437	64.5	1174	66.0	263	58.7
More than high school	579	26.0	466	26.2	113	25.2
Employment status
Unemployed	238	10.6	187	10.4	51	11.3	0.07
Student	1102	49.1	902	50.3	200	44.3
Employed	905	40.3	704	39.3	201	44.5
Study site location
Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso	276	12.3	201	11.2	75	16.6	<0.001***
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	265	11.8	242	13.5	23	5.1
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire	350	15.6	211	11.8	139	30.7
Bouake, Côte d'Ivoire	350	15.6	287	16.0	63	13.9
Gagnoa, Côte d'Ivoire	150	6.7	113	6.3	37	8.2
Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire	250	11.1	183	10.2	67	14.8
Kara, Togo	307	13.7	301	16.8	6	1.3
Lome, Togo	298	13.3	255	14.2	43	9.5

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001

^ap-value derived using Pearson's chi-square test

^bp-value derived using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test; MSM, men who have sex with men.