Table 2.
Prevalence of frequent alcohol consumption by background characteristics, NCD survey 2014, Uganda.
| Background characteristics | Gender |
All n (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Men n (%) |
Women n (%) |
||
| Age | *** | *** | *** |
| 18–19 | 4 (3.2) | 1 (0.6) | 5 (1.6) |
| 20–24 | 19 (7.5) | 9 (2.5) | 28 (4.6) |
| 25–29 | 30 (11.6) | 5 (1.3) | 35 (5.3) |
| 30–34 | 30 (14.3) | 10 (3.0) | 40 (7.4) |
| 35–39 | 40 (20.6) | 10 (3.6) | 50 (10.7) |
| 40–44 | 37 (23.4) | 9 (4.5) | 46 (12.9) |
| 45–49 | 24 (23.5) | 9 (5.2) | 33 (12.0) |
| 50–54 | 23 (21.3) | 6 (3.8) | 29 (10.9) |
| 55–59 | 17 (25.8) | 3 (3.8) | 20 (13.8) |
| 60–64 | 14 (28.6) | 8 (8.1) | 22 (14.9) |
| 65–69 | 8 (21.1) | 9 (11.1) | 17 (14.3) |
| Marital statusa | * | * | * |
| Single | 29 (7.4) | 8 (3.5) | 37 (6.0) |
| Married/in relationship | 185 (17.5) | 44 (2.8) | 229 (8.7) |
| Widowed/Separated/divorced | 38 (26.1) | 29 (5.1) | 67 (9.4) |
| Educationb | *** | *** | ** |
| None | 26 (22.2) | 43 (8.3) | 69 (10.8) |
| Primary | 120 (19.1) | 25 (2.6) | 145 (9.1) |
| Secondary+ | 97 (12.0) | 11 (1.3) | 108 (6.6) |
| Work status | |||
| Employed | 191 (16.1) | 37 (2.7) | 228 (9.0) |
| Student/unpaid worker | 41 (13.6) | 34 (4.2) | 75 (6.7) |
| Unemployed | 14 (19.2) | 8 (5.0) | 22 (9.4) |
| Obese | ** | ||
| Yes | 5 (14.7) | 3 (1.5) | 8 (3.4) |
| No | 239 (15.7) | 69 (3.6) | 308 (9.0) |
| Hypertensivec | * | ** | |
| Yes | 77 (18.9) | 25 (4.6) | 102 (10.7) |
| No | 169 (14.6) | 54 (3.0) | 223 (7.6) |
| Met WHO recommendation for physical activity | * | ||
| Yes | 231 (15.5) | 74 (3.4) | 305 (8.3) |
| No | 15 (21.4) | 5 (3.3) | 20 (9.1) |
| All | 247 (15.7) | 79 (3.4) | 325 (8.4) |
a3 did not provide information b15 refused to provide information c The persons with hypertension don’t include those who had normal blood pressure (BP) but were taking BP drugs at the time of visit NS- Not significant at 5% level. Chi-sq p-values: * p ≤ 0.05 **p < 0.01 ***p < 0.001.