Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of 25–74-year-old citizens in the Yangon Region, Myanmar by study year and gender.
| Socio-Demographic Characteristics | 2004 | 2004 (n = 4448) N (%) |
2014 | 2014 (n = 1372) N (%) |
p Value * | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | ||
| Age group | 0.000 | ||||||
| 25–34 | 320 (16.1) | 387 (15.8) | 707 (15.9) | 125 (18.4) | 134 (19.4) | 259 (18.9) | |
| 35–44 | 389 (19.5) | 556 (22.7) | 945 (21.3) | 141 (20.7) | 175 (25.3) | 316 (23.0) | |
| 45–54 | 492 (24.7) | 639 (26.0) | 1131 (25.4) | 156 (22.9) | 171 (24.8) | 327 (23.8) | |
| 55–64 | 442 (22.2) | 539 (22.0) | 981 (22.1) | 162 (23.8) | 144 (20.8) | 306 (22.3) | |
| 65–74 | 352 (17.6) | 333 (13.6) | 684 (15.4) | 97 (14.2) | 67 (9.7) | 164 (12.0) | |
| Location | 0.577 | ||||||
| Urban | 979 (49.1) | 1306 (53.2) | 2285 (51.4) | 339 (49.8) | 354 (51.2) | 693 (50.5) | |
| Rural | 1015 (50.9) | 1148 (46.8) | 2163 (48.6) | 342 (50.2) | 337 (48.8) | 679 (49.5) | |
| Education level | 0.000 | ||||||
| No formal education | 99 (5.0) | 255 (10.4) | 354 (8.0) | 42 (6.2) | 44 (6.4) | 86 (6.3) | |
| Primary education | 1063 (53.3) | 1325 (54.0) | 2388 (53.7) | 300 (44.1) | 341 (49.4) | 641 (46.7) | |
| Secondary education | 667 (33.5) | 691 (28.2) | 1358 (30.5) | 229 (33.6) | 194 (28.1) | 423 (30.8) | |
| Higher education | 165 (8.3) | 183 (7.5) | 348 (7.8) | 110 (16.2) | 112 (16.2) | 222 (16.2) | |
| Daily income (USD/day) **** | (n = 4171) ** | (n = 1293) *** | 0.000 | ||||
| Less than 1.9 | 1260 (63.2) | 1509 (61.5) | 2769 (62.3) | 380 (55.8) | 363 (52.5) | 743 (54.2) | |
| 1.9–3.09 | 361 (18.1) | 510 (20.8) | 871 (19.6) | 123 (18.1) | 129 (18.7) | 252 (18.4) | |
| ≥ 3.1 | 271 (13.6) | 260 (10.6) | 531 (11.9) | 141 (20.7) | 157 (22.7) | 298 (21.7) | |
* Chi-square test to compare 2004 and 2014 ** 277 missing values in 2004 and *** 79 missing value in 2014 for daily income variable. **** 1 USD = 750 Kyats in 2004 and 953.8 Kyats in 2014.