Table 2.

Relation between sociodemographic data and Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV) knowledge

Sociodemographic data	Fair		Moderate		High		p-Value
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Age (years)
< 20	13	13	78	78	9	9	0.001*
20–40	5	2.1	191	80.9	40	16.9
41–60	5	10.4	40	83.3	3	6.3
Sex
Male	7	3.9	145	80.1	29	16	0.126
Female	16	7.9	164	80.8	23	11.3
Education level
School	15	12.4	91	75.2	15	12.4	0.007*
University	8	3.3	204	83.3	33	13.5
Postgraduate	0	0	14	77.8	4	22.2
Occupation
Unemployed	1	1.3	59	78.7	15	20	0.024*
Student	16	11.3	112	79.4	13	9.2
Government	5	3.8	105	80.2	21	16
Non-government	1	3.1	28	87.5	3	9.4
Retired	0	0	5	100	0	0
Family income (SAR/month)
< 3000	1	9.1	9	81.8	1	9.1	0.960
3000–5500	5	6.4	61	78.2	12	15.4
5500–8000	3	4.4	53	77.9	12	17.6
> 8000	14	6.2	185	81.9	27	11.9
Nationality
Saudi	21	6.2	272	80.2	46	13.6	0.894
Non-Saudi	2	4.4	30	82.2	6	13.3
Region
Urban	23	6.3	294	79.9	51	13.9	0.364
Non-urban	0	0	15	93.8	1	6.3
Farm owner
Yes	7	5.2	107	79.9	20	14.9	0.778
No	16	6.4	202	80.8	32	12.8
Camel owner
Yes	0	0	32	86.5	5	13.5	0.268
No	23	6.6	277	79.8	47	13.5
Contact with camels
Yes	0	0	19	79.2	5	20.8	0.280
No	23	6.4	290	80.6	47	13.1

*p-Value < 0.05 is considered significant.