Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics by language version, Luganda (n = 217) and English (n = 168)
| Total n (%) | Luganda n (%) |
English n (%) |
χ2a | Df | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size | 385 (100) | 217 (100) | 168 (100) | |||
| Sex | 1.10 | 1 | 0.294 | |||
| Female | 254 (66) | 148 (68.2) | 106 (63.1) | |||
| Male | 131 (34) | 69 (31.8) | 62 (36.9) | |||
| Marital status | 2.96 | 1 | 0.085 | |||
| Married/cohabiting | 217 (56.4) | 114 (52.5) | 103 (61.3) | |||
| Widowed/single/divorced | 168 (43.6) | 103 (47.5) | 65 (38.7) | |||
| Home region | 65.58 | 4 | < 0.001 | |||
| Northern | 56 (14.5) | 7 (3.2) | 49 (29.2) | |||
| Eastern | 63 (16.4) | 28 (12.9) | 35 (20.8) | |||
| Western | 90 (23.4) | 56 (25.8) | 34 (20.2) | |||
| Central | 171 (44.4) | 123 (56.7) | 48 (28.6) | |||
| Non-Ugandan | 5 (1.3) | 3 (1.4) | 2 (1.2) | |||
| Education level | 46.83 | 3 | < 0.001 | |||
| Tertiary | 65 (16.9) | 15 (6.9) | 50 (29.8) | |||
| Secondary | 123 (31.9) | 63 (29) | 60 (35.7) | |||
| Primary | 143 (37.1) | 100 (46.1) | 43 (25.6) | |||
| None | 54 (14) | 39 (18) | 15 (8.9) | |||
| Occupation | 17.58 | 3 | 0.003 | |||
| Employed/farmer/business | 323 (83.9) | 181 (83.4) | 142 (84.5) | |||
| Student | 14 (3.6) | 5 (2.3) | 9 (5.4) | |||
| Housewife | 8 (2.1) | 4 (1.8) | 4 (2.4) | |||
| None | 40 (10.4) | 27 (12.4) | 13 (7.7) |
Data collected at Uganda Cancer Institute 2019
aDifferences in proportions tested with χ2 statistics