Table 1.
Sociodemographic and economic characteristics of drivers in Mekelle city, Northern Ethiopia, 2015
| Variable | Category | RTA occurrence/s | P value | Total n (%)/median (IQR) | |
| No n (%)/median (IQR) | Yes n (%)/median (IQR) | ||||
| Age in years | Median (IQR) | 29 (26–34) | 35 (28–41) | – | 30 (26–36) |
| Monthly income in Birr | Median (IQR) | 1000 (700–1800) | 1500 (1000–2300) | – | 1000 (800–2000) |
| Sex | Male | 186 (98.41) | 56 (98.25) | 0.93 | 242 (98.37) |
| Female | 3 (1.59) | 1 (1.75) | 4 (1.63) | ||
| Marital status | Married | 74 (39.15) | 27 (47.37) | 0.004 | 101 (41.06) |
| Single | 88 (46.56) | 14 (24.56) | 102 (41.46) | ||
| Divorced | 21 (11.11) | 9 (15.79) | 30 (12.20) | ||
| Widowed | 6 (3.17) | 7 (12.28) | 13 (5.28) | ||
| Religion | Orthodox | 139 (73.54) | 31 (54.39) | 0.031 | 170 (69.11) |
| Muslim | 37 (19.58) | (17)29.82 | 54 (21.95) | ||
| Protestant | 4 (2.12) | 4 (7.02) | 8 (3.25) | ||
| Catholic | 9 (4.76) | 5 (8.77) | 14 (5.69) | ||
| Educational status | Illiterate | 13 (6.88) | 4 (7.02) | 0.644 | 17 (6.91) |
| Primary (grade 1–4) | 2 (1.06) | 2 (3.51) | 4 (1.63) | ||
| Secondary (grade 5–10) | 94 (49.74) | 27 (47.37) | 121 (49.19) | ||
| Above 10 | 80 (42.33) | 24 (42.11) | 104 (42.28) | ||
| Ethnicity | Tigray | 178 (94.18) | 44 (77.19) | 0.000 | 222 (90.24) |
| Amhara | 10 (5.29) | 7 (12.28) | 17 (6.91) | ||
| Afar | 1 (0.53) | 6 (10.53) | 7 (2.85) | ||
n=246.
RTA, road traffic accident.