Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of study participants

Variable	WCP, n/N (%)	FSP, n/N (%)	P value	Both WCP and FSP, n/N (%)
Marital status
Never married	395/802 (49.2)	547/1104 (49.6)	0.899	942/1906 (50.0)
Currently married	305/802 (38.0)	318/1104 (28.8)	<0.001	623/1906 (33.1)
Divorced	11/802 (1.4)	11/1104 (1.0)	0.449	22/1906 (1.2)
Separated	13/802 (1.6)	56/1104 (5.1)	<0.001	69/1906 (3.7)
Widowed	7/802 (0.9)	35/1104 (3.2)	0.001	42/1906 (2.2)
Married/cohabited before but current status unrecorded	71/802 (8.9)	137/1104 (12.4)	0.014	208/1906 (10.9)
Highest educational level
Primary	92/799 (11.5)	171/1091 (15.7)	0.010	263/1890 (13.9)
Secondary (any grade)	593/799 (74.2)	866/1091 (79.4)	0.008	1459/1890 (77.2)
Finished secondary school	259/799 (32.5)	262/1091 (24.0)	<0.001	521/1890 (27.6)
Tertiary	114/799 (14.3)	54/1091 (4.9)	<0.001	168/1890 (8.9)
Employed	245/801 (30.6)	131/1104 (11.9)	<0.001	376/1905 (19.7)
Wealth quintile*
Lowest quintile (poorest)	157/784 (20.0)	218/1087 (20.0)	0.987	375/1871 (20.0)
Second lowest quintile	157/784 (20.0)	217/1087 (20.0)	0.974	374/1871 (20.0)
Middle quintile	167/784 (21.3)	218/1087 (20.0)	0.511	385/1871 (20.6)
Second highest quintile	159/784 (20.3)	219/1087 (20.2)	0.944	378/1871 (20.2)
Highest quintile (wealthiest)	144/784 (18.4)	215/1087 (19.8)	0.444	359/1871 (19.2)
Setting
Urban formal	455/802 (56.7)	NA	NA	NA
Urban informal	347/802 (43.3)	520/1104 (47.1)	0.097	867/1906 (45.5)
Rural formal	NA	584/1104 (52.9)	NA	NA

The two-sample test of equality of proportions test statistic was used for comparison of sample substrata between WCP and FSP and to generate P values.

*Household wealth quintiles were generated separately for each province using data for the specified province only.

FSP, Free State Province; n/N (%), proportion and percentage; NA, not applicable; WCP, Western Cape Province.