Table 1. Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics according to inclusion in the labor market of women aged 18 to 64 years. Campinas Health Survey (2008 ISACamp).
Variable | Total | Working women | Stay-at-home women | pa | ||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
Total | 464 | 316 | 148 | |||||
Age group (years) | 0.0001 | |||||||
18–29 | 151 | 32.3 | 116 | 34.0 | 35 | 27.9 | ||
30–39 | 102 | 28.6 | 82 | 32.6 | 20 | 18.9 | ||
40–49 | 85 | 23.2 | 58 | 22.6 | 27 | 24.9 | ||
50–64 | 126 | 15.9 | 60 | 10.8 | 66 | 28.3 | ||
Education level (years of study) | < 0.0001 | |||||||
0–8 | 198 | 39.2 | 102 | 30.3 | 96 | 60.9 | ||
9 or more | 266 | 60.8 | 214 | 69.7 | 52 | 39.1 | ||
Family income per capita (MWb) | 0.0001 | |||||||
< 1 | 180 | 38.4 | 106 | 31.5 | 74 | 55.3 | ||
≥ 1 | 284 | 61.6 | 210 | 68.5 | 74 | 44.7 | ||
Race (self-reported)c | 0.4057 | |||||||
White | 344 | 76.1 | 232 | 74.7 | 112 | 79.6 | ||
Black | 28 | 6.6 | 24 | 7.9 | 4 | 3.6 | ||
Brown | 88 | 17.3 | 57 | 17.4 | 31 | 16.8 | ||
Marital status | < 0.0001 | |||||||
Married | 220 | 47.8 | 123 | 41.0 | 97 | 64.1 | ||
Living together/Cohabitating | 68 | 16.7 | 45 | 16.0 | 23 | 18.5 | ||
Divorced/Separated/Widowed | 53 | 10.2 | 36 | 10.2 | 17 | 10.1 | ||
Single | 123 | 25.3 | 112 | 32.8 | 11 | 7.3 | ||
Number of children | < 0.0001 | |||||||
Zero | 132 | 28.6 | 125 | 38.4 | 7 | 4.9 | ||
1 | 98 | 23.2 | 68 | 23.7 | 30 | 22.0 | ||
2 | 118 | 25.4 | 64 | 20.9 | 54 | 36.1 | ||
3 or more | 116 | 22.8 | 59 | 17.0 | 57 | 37.0 | ||
Number of persons in the household | 0.0584 | |||||||
1 to 2 | 122 | 22.2 | 88 | 25.4 | 34 | 14.6 | ||
3 to 4 | 213 | 49.6 | 146 | 49.1 | 67 | 50.6 | ||
5 or more | 129 | 28.2 | 82 | 25.5 | 47 | 34.8 | ||
Housekeeper | 0.3707 | |||||||
No | 417 | 90.3 | 282 | 89.4 | 135 | 92.5 | ||
Yes | 47 | 9.7 | 34 | 10.6 | 13 | 7.5 |
Rao-Scott chi-square test.
Minimum wage (MW) valid at the time of the research: January to April/2008: R$415.00; May/2008 to April/2009: R$450.00.
Four women who self-reported as yellow were excluded.