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. 2020 May 11;20:404. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05256-9

Table 1.

PHRU Zazi Evaluation Study Participant Demographics by Phase (Phase 1, Feb-June 2018; Phase 2, June 2018–March 2019)

Variable Overall Phase 1 Phase 2 P-Value
No. of enrolment 617 284 333
Age (in years)
 18–24 (%) 113 (18.4) 44 (15.5) 69 (20.7) 0.0680
 25–34 (%) 223 (36.1) 95 (33.5) 128 (38.4)
 35–44 (%) 16 (26.7) 83 (29.2) 82 (24.6)
  ≥ 45 (%) 116 (18.8) 62/ (21.8) 54 (16.3)
 Median (IQR) 33.0 (26.0–41) 35.0 (28.0–43) 31.0 (25.0–40) 0.0003
 Mean (SD) 34.9 (10.8) 36.5 (10.9) 33.6 (10.5) 0.0008
 Min, Max (18–73) (18–73) (18–64)
Sex
 Female (%) 378 (61.3) 153 (53.9) 225 (67.6) 0.0005
 Male (%) 239 (38.7) 131 (46.1) 108 (32.4)
Race
 Black (%) 612 (99.2) 281 (98.9) 331 (99.4) 0.6657
 Coloured/mixed race (%) 5 (0.8) 3 (1.1) 2 (0.6)
Nationalitya
 South African (%) 592 (96.6) 268 (95.7) 324 (97.3) 0.2831
 Other (%) 21 (3.4) 12 (4.3) 9 (2.7)
Ethnic groupa
 Zulu (%) 27 (45.3) 116 (41.0) 163 (48.9) 0.3544
 Sotho (%) 101 (16.4) 50 (17.7) 51 (15.3)
 Tsonga (%) 70 (11.4) 31 (11.0) 39 (11.7)
 Tswana (%) 39 (6.2) 22 (7.7) 17 (5.2)
 Xhosa (%) 49 (8.0) 24 (8.5) 25 (7.5)
 Other (%) 78 (12.7) 40 (14.1) 38 (11.4)
Marital statusa
 Divorced/Widowed (%) 27 (4.4) 19 (6.7) 8 (2.4) 0.0298
 Living together/Married (%) 153 (24.9) 66 (23.4) 87 (26.2)
 Single (%) 434 (70.7) 197 (69.9) 237 (71.4)
Highest educationa
 Up To High School (%) 247 (40.1) 111 (39.2) 136 (40.8) 0.0598
 Matriculated (%) 223 (36.2) 93 (32.9) 130 (39.0)
 Tertiary education (%) 146 (23.7) 79 (27.9) 67 (20.2)
Source of money to live on?a
 Employed (%) 227 (36.9) 111 (39.1) 116 (35.0) 0.0395
 Parents (%) 105 (17.1) 37 (13.0) 68 (20.5)
 Pension (%) 18 (2.9) 12 (4.2) 6 (1.9)
 Self-employed (%) 118 (19.2) 61 (21.5) 57 (17.2)
 Social/Disability grant (%) 74 (12.0) 29 (10.2) 45 (13.6)
 Unemployed (%) 73 (11.9) 34 (12.0) 39 (11.8)
Wealth quintile
 Quintile 1 (%) 163 (26.4) 69 (24.3) 94 (28.2) 0.2145
 Quintile 2 (%) 138 (22.4) 73 (25.7) 65 (19.5)
 Quintile 3 (%) 164 (26.6) 74 (26.1) 90 (27.0)
 Quintile 4 (%) 124 (20.1) 52 (18.3) 72 (21.6)
 Quintile 5 (%) 28 (4.5) 16 (5.6) 12 (3.7)

IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation

aOverall may not be equal to the sample size as a result of missing responses