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. 2021 Jan 11;16(1):e0245086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245086

Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants.

Variable Patients Controls p-value
N [%] N [%]
Sex 0.2381
Male 139 [46.8] 126 [42.0]
Female 158 [53.2] 174 [58.0]  
Marital status <0.0011
Married 103 [34.7] 166 [55.3]
Never married 139 [46.8] 100 [33.3]
Widow/separated/divorced 55 [18.5] 34 [11.3]  
Highest level of education <0.001
None 23 [7.7] 12 [4]
Primary 106 [35.7] 41 [13.7]
Secondary 92 [31] 80 [26.7]
Tertiary 76 [25.6] 167 [55.7]  
Occupation <0.0011
Unemployed 143 [48.1] 74 [24.7]
Formal 43 [14.5] 144 [48]
Self 11[17.4] 82 [27.3]  

1 Chi-squared test 2 Fishers’ exact test 3 Wilcoxon rank sum test.