Table 2.

Prevalence of sociodemographic characteristics of transgender women as compared with MSM participants in Togo (N=605)

	Total		MSM		Transgender women
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ2pa
Median age (IQR)b	23 (21 to 26)		23 (21 to 26)		21 (20 to 25)		0.004**
Education completed
Primary school or lower	32	5.3	26	4.7	6	12.2	0.04*
Secondary/high school	410	68.0	376	67.9	34	69.4
More than high school	161	26.7	152	27.4	9	18.4
Employment status
Unemployed	62	10.3	59	10.6	3	6.1	0.08
Student	215	35.5	203	36.5	12	24.5
Employed	328	54.2	294	52.9	34	69.4
Study site location
Kara	307	50.7	301	54.1	6	12.2	<0.001***
Lome	298	49.3	255	45.9	43	87.8

^*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.