Table 1.
Demographic and health-related characteristics for exposed and non-exposed workers
| Variable | Non-exposed (%; n = 111) | Exposed (%; n = 110) |
p-valuea |
|---|---|---|---|
| I. Demographic characteristic | |||
| Age | 0.138 | ||
| 18–33 | 31.5 | 40.4 | |
| 34–49 | 28.8 | 29.4 | |
| 50–60 | 39.6 | 30.3 | |
| Residence near a dump site | 0.001 | ||
| No | 77.3 | 57.3 | |
| Yes | 22.7 | 42.7 | |
| Education | 0.473 | ||
| Primary level | 25.2 | 26.4 | |
| Secondary level | 52.3 | 50.0 | |
| University level | 22.5 | 23.6 | |
| Work hours | 0.368 | ||
| ≤ 8 h | 49.5 | 47.3 | |
| > 8 h | 50.5 | 52.7 | |
| Workplace | 0.000 | ||
| Indoors | 26.1 | 48.2 | |
| Outdoors | 48.6 | 24.5 | |
| Indoors and outdoors | 25.2 | 27.3 | |
| Marital status | 0.425 | ||
| Married | 34.2 | 33.0 | |
| Not married | 65.8 | 67.0 | |
| Support to family | 0.005 | ||
| No | 34.5 | 19.0 | |
| Yes | 65.5 | 81.0 | |
| Income | 0.416 | ||
| Insufficient | 45.5 | 44.0 | |
| Sufficient | 54.5 | 56.0 | |
| II. Heath-related characteristic | |||
| Presence of Chronic Disease | 0.300 | ||
| No | 77.5 | 80.4 | |
| Yes | 22.5 | 19.6 | |
| Smoking | 0.009 | ||
| No | 54.1 | 38.2 | |
| Yes | 45.9 | 61.8 | |
| Insurance | 0.075 | ||
| No | 19.1 | 27.3 | |
| Yes | 80.9 | 72.7 | |
aChi-squared; p-value < 0.05 is considered significant