Table 3.

Prevalence of any parasite infection and intestinal polyparasitism by sociodemographic characteristics of 331 participants

Characteristic	N	Any parasite			Polyparasitism
		n	%	p value	N	%	p value
City district of Bogotá
Ciudad Bolívar	194	87	44.8	0.11	19	9.8	0.73
Kennedy	115	45	39.1		11	9.6
Usaquén	22	5	22.7		1	4.5
Stratuma
One	168	74	44.0	0.32	14	8.6	0.64
Two	163	63	38.7		17	10.1
Ethnicity
Minority groupb	306	124	40.5	0.37	26	8.5	0.06
Majority group	24	12	50.0		5	20.8
Occupation
Housewife	259	105	40.5	0.38	27	10.4	0.50
Student	33	13	39.4		1	3.0
Sales and services	21	8	38.1		1	4.8
Other	18	11	61.1		2	11.1
Level of education
Elementary school	38	20	52.6	0.30	3	8.0	0.93
Secondary school	234	92	39.3		22	9.4
Higher education	59	25	42.4		6	10.2
Civil status
Single	101	34	33.7	0.06	10	9.9	0.82
Married or cohabiting	230	103	44.8		21	9.1
Social health security coverage
Yes	291	120	41.2	0.88	25	8.6	0.19
No	40	17	42.5		6	15.0
Victim of forced displacement
Yes	267	107	40.1	0.32	23	8.6	0.34
No	64	30	46.9		8	12.5
Monthly incomec
≤ 1 Minimum wage	73	29	39.8	0.99	6	8.2	0.81
> 1 Minimum wage	241	96	39.7		22	9.1
Parity
Nulliparous	181	76	42.0	0.75	13	7.2	0.13
Parous	149	60	40.3		18	12.1
Trimester
First	61	21	34.4	0.46	7	11.5	0.50
Second	149	64	43.0		16	10.7
Third	115	50	43.5		8	7.0

The following variables had missing data: ethnicity (1 missing), monthly income (17 missing), parity (1 missing), and trimester (6 missing)

^aSocioeconomic classification in Colombia

^bAfrocolombian, native ethnic people

^cOne minimum monthly Colombian income (for 2016 year) = USD 233