Table 2.
Descriptive analysis of the participants’ variables (individual), n = 85,231 participants, Brazil 2017
| Variable | Category | Frequency (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Sought dental care (outcome) | Yes | 49,500 (58.1%) |
| No | 35,731 (41.9%) | |
| Gender | Male | 18,360 (21.5%) |
| Female | 66,871 (78.5%) | |
| Marital status | Single | 19,655 (23.1%) |
| Married or in a common-law marriage | 54,009 (63.4%) | |
| Divorced/Separated | 5677 (6.7%) | |
| Widowed | 5890 (6.9%) | |
| Self-declared ethnicity | White | 25,645 (30.1%) |
| Black | 10,857 (12.7%) | |
| Yellow | 2610 (3.1%) | |
| Brown/Mixed-race | 44,227 (51.9%) | |
| Indigenous | 753 (0.9%) | |
| No information | 1139 (1.3%) | |
| Level of schooling | Illiterate | 4818 (5.7%) |
| Literate | 4525 (5.3%) | |
| Incomplete Elementary School | 27,808 (32.6%) | |
| Complete Elementary School | 8634 (10.1%) | |
| Incomplete High School | 8839 (10.4%) | |
| Complete High School | 22,755 (26.7%) | |
| Incomplete Higher Education | 2977 (3.5%) | |
| Complete Higher Education | 3894 (4.6%) | |
| Postgraduate Education | 858 (1.0%) | |
| No information | 123 (0.1%) | |
| Mean (standard deviation) | Median (minimum and maximum value) | |
| Age | 43.74 (16.31) | 42.0 (18.0; 99.0) |
| Income | 1585.58 (2854.39) | 980.0 (1.0; 98.500.0) |
| Number of people in the family | 3.60 (1.66) | 3.0 (1.0; 30.0) |