Table 1.
Distribution of the respondents by age (N = 25,287).
| Age group (years) | Male |
Female |
N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13,878(54.9) | 11,409(45.1) | ||
| 18–30 | 3734 (26.9) | 3857 (33.8) | 7591 (30.0) |
| 31–40 | 3644 (26.3) | 3405 (29.8) | 7049 (27.9) |
| 41–50 | 2831 (20.3) | 2152 (18.9) | 4965(19.6) |
| 51–60 | 1987 (14.3) | 1132 (9.9) | 3119(12.3) |
| >60 | 188 (1.4) | 182 (1.4) | 370 (1.5) |
| Residence | |||
| Urban | 7983 (57.6) | 6921 (60.6) | 14,904(58.9) |
| Rural | 5887 (42.4) | 4496 (39.4) | 10,383(41.1) |
| Marital status | |||
| Married | 11,803 (85.1) | 10,044 (88.0) | 21,847 (86.4) |
| Single | 1956 (14.1) | 510 (4.5) | 2466 (9.8) |
| Divorced/widowed | 111 (0.8) | 863 (7.6) | 974 (3.9) |
| Education level | |||
| No education | 2922 (21.1) | 3043 (26.7) | 5965 (23.6) |
| Under 10th | 5159 (37.2) | 5268 (46.1) | 10,427 (41.2) |
| SSC pass | 2230 (16.1) | 1656 (14.5) | 3886 (15.4) |
| HSC pass | 1653 (11.9) | 843 (7.4) | 2496 (9.9) |
| Graduate | 1277 (9.2) | 406 (3.6) | 1683 (6.7) |
| Postgraduate | 629 (4.5) | 201 (1.8) | 830 (3.3) |
*** All the variables are statistically significantly different in between gender.