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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2019 Jan 31;31(7):793–797. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2019.1573969

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics and criminal history of women prisoners in Azerbaijan (AZE), Kyrgyzstan (KYR) and Ukraine (UKR) (N=220)

N (%)1

Total (N = 220) AZE (n = 58) KYR (n = 81) UKR (n = 81) F or χ2 p
Mean age (SD), years 38.7 (10.5) 42.4 (10. 8) 40.62 (10.9) 33.97 (7.8) 14.7 <.01

Ethnicity Azerbaijani 48 (21.8) 48 (82.7)* 331.95 <.01
Kyrgyz 30 (13.6) 30 (37.0)*
Ukrainian 50 (22.7) 50 (61.7)*
Russian 57 (25.9) 30 (37.0)* 27 (33.3)
Uzbek 8 (3.6) 8 (9.9)*
Roma 1 (0.5) 1 (1.2)  

Religion Orthodox 59 (26.8) 59 (72.8)* 275.76 <.01
Protestant 3 (1.4) 3 (3.37)*
Greek Orthodox 5 (2.3) 5 (6.2)*
Muslim 91 (41.4) 46 (79.3)* 45 (55.6)*
Christian 35 (15.9) 35 (43.2)*

Marital status Single 73 (34.6) 14 (24.1) 20 (24.7) 39 (17.7)* 29.4 <.01
Have a partner 12 (5.7) 6 (10.3)* 2 (2.5) 4 (1.8)
Married/unregistered marriage 46 (21.8) 11 (19) 17 (21)* 18 (8.2)
Divorced 45 (21.3) 14 (24.1) 21 (25.9) 10 (4.5)
Widowed 34 (16.1) 3 (5.2) 21 (25.9) 10 (4.5)

In a sexual relationship Yes 58 (27.5) 17 (8.1) 19 (9.0) 22 (10.4) 1.9 0.37

Education No Education 12 (5.7) 8 (3.8) * 0 4 (1.9) 18.3 <.01
High school and below 134 (63.5) 24 (11.4) 53 (25.1) 57 (27.0)
Above high school 65 (30.8) 17 (8.1) 28 (13.3) 20 (9.5)

Recidivist Yes 94 (42.7) 19 (32.8) 36 (44.4) 39 (48.1) 3.4 0.18

Mean number of previous incarcerations for recidivists (SD) 2.9 (1.7) 1.1 (0.3) 2.67 (1.8) 3.41 (1.5) 8.2 <.01

Mean incarceration, years (SD) 2.9 (2.1) 3.9 (2.4) 2.9 (1.7) 2.3 (1.8) 10.5 <.01

Note.

*

= p≤.05.

Adjusted standardized residual greater than 1.96

1

May not sum to 100% because of missing values