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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Afr Econ. 2011 May 4;20(3):505–529. doi: 10.1093/jae/ejr014

Table 1:

Summary Statistics for Household Demographics and Health Status

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
Women Men Kakira Kampala WHO 1 or 2 WHO 3 or 4 All

Demographics
 Age 34.83*** 37.51 36.49** 34.88 35.90 35.41 35.68
 Household size (no. of members) 4.57* 4.18 4.76*** 4.14 4.59 4.28 4.45
 Marital status
  Single (%) 4*** 10 2*** 9 5 6 6
  Married or committed (%) 38*** 60 48 42 48* 41 45
  Divorced or widowed (%) 58*** 30 50 49 46* 54 49
 Living without spouse (%) 67*** 48 56*** 66 57** 66 61
 Another HIV-positive person in Hh (%) 28 28 31 26 31 25 28
 Someone moved into Hh because of HIV status (%) 27 31 21 *** 35 20*** 38 28
 Child moved out because of HIV status (%) 34* 42 35 38 33* 41 36
Health status
 WHO Stage 3 or 4 (%) 46 43 29*** 61 45
 Asymptomatic illness (%) 22 24 31 *** 14 34*** 9 23
 Perceives health as ‘less than good’ (%) 73 75 71* 77 67*** 83 74
 CD4 count <250 (%) 56 58 56 57 44*** 72 56
 Mean time since HIV-test in months 20 17 20 18 20 18 19
 No. of observations 411 191 300 302 331 271 602

Notes:

***

significant at 1% level

**

significant at 5% level

*

significant at 10% level.

Hh, household. The t-tests compare column 1 with column 2; column 3 with column 4; and column 5 with column 6.