Table 1.
Demographic and general characteristics of the study sample
| Wealth | Poor (1st tertile of wealth index) |
Not Poor (2nd & 3rd tertile of wealth index) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Agency level
|
Poor + No Agency
|
Poor + Some agency
|
Not poor + No agency
|
Not poor + Some sgency
|
Total
|
|
Number of observations
|
42 385 (37.5%) |
70 766 (62.5%) |
113 151*, |
||
| 12 413 (11.0%) |
29 930 (26.5%) |
15 216 (13.5%) |
55 464 (49.1%) |
113 023*, |
|
| HIV prevalence (95% CI) |
3.9% (3.7%, 4.1%) |
5.9%§ (5.6%, 6.1%) |
5.2% (5%, 5.3%) |
||
| 1.5% (1.3%, 1.8%) |
4.9%§ (4.6%, 5.2%) |
2.2%‡ (1.8%, 2.5%) |
6.9%§ (6.6%, 7.2%) |
||
| Average age (years) (95% CI) |
30.7 (30.6, 30.8) |
31.4§ (31.3, 31.5) |
31.2 (31.1, 31.3) |
||
| 30.2 (30.0, 30.3) |
31.0§ (30.8, 31.1) |
30.2† (30.1,30.4) |
31.8§ (31.7, 31.9) |
||
| Young (15-24 years) |
27.4% (26.8%, 27.9%) |
23.0%§ (22.6%, 23.5%) |
24.6% (24.2%, 24.9%) |
||
| 29.4% (28.4%, 30.5%) |
26.5%§ (25.8%, 27.1%) |
28.5% (27.5%, 29.4%) |
21.5%§ (21.1%, 22.0%) |
||
| Secondary education or higher (%) |
9.5% (9.1%, 9.9%) |
32.6%§ (31.9%, 33.3%) |
24.4% (23.9%, 24.9%) |
||
| 3.3% (2.9%, 3.7%) |
12.1%§ (11.6%, 12.7%) |
11.3%§ (10.6%, 12.0%) |
38.3%§ (37.6%, 39.1%) |
||
| Working (%) |
60% (59.1%, 61.0%) |
59.9% (59.2%, 60.5%) |
59.9% (59.4%, 60.5%) |
||
| 49.3% (47.7%, 50.9%) |
64.6%§ (63.5%, 65.6%) |
43.9% (42.6%, 45.2%) |
64.3%§ (63.6%, 65.0%) |
||
| Had pregnancy in recent 5 years (%) |
77.2% (76.7%, 77.8%) |
69.0%§ (68.5%, 69.5%) |
72.0% (71.6%, 72.3%) |
||
| 77.3% (76.4%, 78.3%) |
77.2% (76.6%, 77.9%) |
73.4%§ (72.5%, 74.4%) |
67.8%§ (67.3%, 68.4%) |
||
| Living in rural area (%) |
96% (95.6%, 96.3%) |
52.2%§ (51.3%, 53.2%) |
67.8% (67.1%, 68.5%) |
||
| 97.3% (96.9%, 97.8%) |
95.4%§ (94.9%, 95.8%) |
68.4%§ (67.0%, 69.9%) |
47.9%§ (46.9%, 48.9%) |
||
| Head of household (%) |
13.7% (13.0%, 14.4%) |
14.9% (14.3%, 15.5%) |
14.5% (14.0%, 14.9%) |
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| 10.8% (9.7%, 12.1%) |
14.5%§ (13.8%, 15.3%) |
10.2% (9.3%, 11.3%) |
15.8%§ (15.2%, 16.5%) |
||
| Wife/co-wife of head of household (%) |
73.1% (72.3%, 74.0%) |
71.8% (71.0%, 72.6%) |
72.3% (71.7%, 73.0%) |
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| 76.2% (74.5%, 77.8%) |
72.3%§ (71.3%, 73.3%) |
77.6%‡ (76.0%, 79.1%) |
70.6%§ (69.7%, 71.4%) |
||
| Other relationship to head of household (%) | 13.2% (12.5%, 13.9%) |
13.3% (12.8%, 13.9%) |
13.3% (12.8%, 13.7%) | ||
| 13% (11.5%, 14.7%) | 13.2%§ (12.4%, 13.9%) | 12.1%§ (11.0%, 13.4%) | 13.6%‡ (13.0%, 14.2%) | ||
CI – confidence interval
*The difference between total number of observations in these two rows is due to responders with missing values for agency questions who were omitted from the further analyses. Comparisons are made against the first category for each variable. Source: [14].
†P = 0.05.
‡P < 0.01.
§P < 0.001. Significant in unadjusted and adjusted models.