Table 1.

Sex-stratified characteristics by household asset score tertile among 3,370 adults in Samoa, 2010.

Characteristic	Total	Female (n = 1,985) by tertilea				Male (n = 1,385) by tertilea
		Low	Medium	High	P†	Low	Medium	High	P†
n	3370	569	751	665		394	480	511
Age group (years), %					0.118				<0.001
24.5-<35	24.18	20.74	26.10	23.76		18.78	24.17	29.94
35-<45	25.93	30.23	26.50	26.92		24.11	22.08	24.07
45-<55	27.45	28.65	28.10	25.71		34.01	27.29	22.50
55-<65	22.43	20.39	19.31	23.61		23.10	26.46	23.48
Married/cohabitating, %	82.79	87.17	86.15	86.17	0.837	82.99	74.79	75.93	0.008
Education category, %					<0.001				<0.001
Secondary education not completed	24.07	29.17	22.10	13.53		41.88	32.39	13.50
Secondary education completed	68.75	68.01	72.97	75.19		56.60	61.88	70.84
Tertiary education completed and beyond	7.18	2.81	4.93	11.28		1.52	5.83	15.66
Current smoker	34.01	21.27	21.97	22.41	0.889	57.36	49.79	48.14	0.016
Ever consumed alcohol	15.93	1.41	2.53	3.31	0.099	35.28	36.04	34.44	0.870
Census region, %					<0.001				<0.001
Savaii	22.49	36.03	24.23	11.28		30.96	22.92	12.52
Rest of Upolu	26.56	27.77	28.50	22.86		30.71	25.42	25.05
Northwest Upolu	30.68	26.01	27.03	37.29		25.89	31.67	35.42
Apia urban area	20.27	10.19	20.24	28.57		12.44	20.00	27.01

Values are counts and percentages in parentheses or means ± SD.

^†P values for generalized linear regression (for continuous variables) or Chi-square test (for categorical variables).

^aHousehold asset score is the sum of consumer durables owned (stove type, refrigerator, portable stereo, stereo, television, videocassette recorder, landline phone, carpet, car/4-wheeled motorized vehicle, couch, European style house, plumbing, freezer, and washing machine). The score is out of a maximum of 14 and was categorized into tertiles based on score distribution: low (mean:3.34, SD: 1.52), medium (mean:7.12, SD:0.81), and high (mean:10.42, SD:1.40).