Table 3.
Prevalence of sociodemographic characteristics of transgender women as compared with MSM participants in Burkina Faso (N=541)
| Total | MSM | Transgender women | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | n | % | n | % | n | % | χ2pa |
| Median age (IQR)b | 22 (20 to 24) | 22 (20 to 24) | 21 (20 to 24) | 0.70 | |||
| Education completed | |||||||
| Primary school or lower | 51 | 9.6 | 38 | 8.7 | 13 | 13.8 | 0.13 |
| Secondary/high school | 384 | 72.2 | 315 | 71.9 | 69 | 73.4 | |
| More than high school | 97 | 18.2 | 85 | 19.4 | 12 | 12.8 | |
| Employment status | |||||||
| Unemployed | 27 | 5.0 | 18 | 4.1 | 9 | 9.2 | 0.002** |
| Student | 344 | 63.6 | 296 | 66.8 | 48 | 49.0 | |
| Employed | 170 | 31.4 | 129 | 29.1 | 41 | 41.8 | |
| Study site location | |||||||
| Bobo-Dioulasso | 276 | 51.0 | 201 | 45.4 | 75 | 76.5 | <0.001*** |
| Ouagadougou | 265 | 49.0 | 242 | 54.6 | 23 | 23.5 | |
*
p<0.05
**
p<0.01
***
p<0.001
a
p-value derived using Pearson's chi-square test
b
p-value derived using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test; MSM, men who have sex with men.