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. 2020 Aug 24;17:130. doi: 10.1186/s12978-020-00980-1

Table 2.

Detailed socio-demographic characteristics of participants per target group

GROUP TOTAL (116)
AG (13) UV (3) MAT (13) WRA (16) Y (11) C-T (11) FE (10) CHW (16) CL (12) TH (11)
SEX
 Female 13 2 12 16 5 9 10 * 9 10 86
 Male NA 1 1 NA 6 2 NA * 3 1 14
AGE MEAN (+SD) 15.9 (3,4) 40 (7,8) 53,2 (9,3) 26,6 (9,5) 24 (3,4) 44 (14,9) 55,6 (9,6) 36,6 (11) 56 (9,5) 47,3 (11) 38,4 (16,6)
MARITAL STATUS
 Single 11 0 2 3 5 4 2 8 4 7 46
 Married/marital union 2 3 6 13 6 7 2 8 8 3 58
 Widow 0 0 5 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 12
OCCUPATION
 Student 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 NA 0 NA 8
 Farmer 0 0 11 1 3 7 10 NA 7 NA 39
 Domestic Worker 4 0 0 13 0 0 0 NA 1 NA 18
 Employed other** 1 3 2 2 8 3 0 NA 4 NA 23
 Unemployed 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 NA 0 NA 1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
 Primary or less*** 8 1 11 12 6 10 6 10 10 9 83
 Secondary (complete or in part) 5 2 0 3 5 0 0 6 0 0 21
 None 0 0 2 1 0 1 4 0 2 2 12

*Missing data

**Mostly working in commerce, but also in security and as ‘chefe do quarteirão’ (head of a block of houses)

***Including adult education classes, commonly known as ‘alfabetização’ (alphabetization), targeted for adults that never attended school with the objective of transmitting basic literacy skills

Abbreviations of target groups: Adolescent Girls (AG), Unlicensed Vendors (UV), Matrons (MAT), Women of Reproductive Age (WRA), Youth (Y), Care-takers (C-T), Female Elders (FE), Community Health Workers (CHW), Community Leaders (CL), Traditional Healers (TH)