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. 2020 Feb 18;20:245. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-8345-1

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample population

Alcohol use disorder p-value
Low risk High risk
Frequency (%) Frequency (%)
Gender
Male 173 (41.2%) 247 (58.8%) < 0.001
Female 216 (61.9%) 133 (38.1%)
Education level
Illiterate 4 (33.3%) 8 (66.7%) < 0.001
Primary 9 (23.1%) 30 (76.9%)
Complementary 18 (34.6%) 34 (65.4%)
Secondary 57 (51.8%) 53 (48.2%)
University 258 (55.8%) 204 (44.2%)
higher education 36 (56.3%) 28 (43.8%)
Socioeconomic status
<  1000 $ 195 (51.9%) 181(48.1%) 0.446
1000–2000 $ 126 (48.8%) 132 (51.2%)
>  2000 $ 47 (45.2%) 57 (54.8%)
Marital status
Single 257 (52.9%) 229 (47.1%) 0.001
Married 124 (52.8%) 111 (47.2%)
Widowed 3 (15.8%) 16 (84.2%)
Divorced 8 (26.7%) 22 (73.3%)
Mean ± SD Mean ± SD
Age (in years) 30.27 ± 13.14 30.33 ± 11.90 0.945
Number of kids 0.91 ± 1.62 0.62 ± 1.28 0.008

Bold numbers indicate significant p-values