Table 4.

Distribution of the serum samples collected in municipalities of southeast Pará State, Brazil, according to educational status and gender, in relation to the HIV-1 serology test results, from 2005 to 2014

Schooling	Sex						Total/ Pos/ %	p
	Male			Female
	Total	P Pos	%	Total	Pos	%
Illiterate	139	–	–	103	1	0.97	242/ 1/ 0.41	0.82
Elementary school	1593	9	0.56	984	6	0.61	2577/ 15/ 0.58	0.60
High school	859	3	0.35	389	2	0.51	1248/ 5/ 0.40	0.65
Higher education	109	1	0.92	90	–	–	199/ 1/ 0.50	0.20
No information	114	1	0.88	80	–	–	194/ 1/ 0.51
Totala	2814	14	0.50	1646	9	0.55	4460/ 23/ 0.52

Legend: Pos positive, Male male, Fem female, %- percentage, − zero

^aIn this total, 311 small children (162 male and 149 female) who were not in school were excluded. Also, the cases without information (194) were not included in the p analysis