Table 5.
Factors associated with mobile phone ownership and other digital use on bivariate analysis.
| Variable | Category | Phone ownership n (%) | Chi square p value | Smart phone n (%) | Chi square p value | Access to any digital media n (%) | Chi square p value | Use of text message |
Chi square p value | Use of social media n (%) | Chi square p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than daily n (%) | Daily n (%) | |||||||||||
| Gender | Male | 115 (76.7) | 0.691 | 66 (44.0) | 0.204 | 140 (93.3) | 1.000 | 59 (39.3) | 62 (41.3) | 0.459 | 74 (49.3) | 0.286 |
| Female | 24 (80.0) | 17 (56.7) | 28 (93.3) | 10 (33.3) | 16 (53.3) | 18 (60.0) | ||||||
| Age (years) | 18–24 | 31 (73.8) | 0.559 | 19 (45.2) | 0.997 | 41 (97.6) | 0.074 | 20 (47.6) | 16 (38.1) | 0.418 | 22 (52.4) | 0.902 |
| 25–40 | 81 (75.7) | – | 49 (45.8) | – | 96 (89.7) | – | 36 (33.6) | 47 (43.9) | – | 53 (49.5) | ||
| 40+ | 22 (84.6) | – | 12 (46.2) | – | 26 (100.0) | – | 11 (42.3) | 12 (46.2) | – | 14 (53.8) | ||
| Education level | Primary and below | 54 (62.8) | <0.001 | 23 (26.7) | <0.001 | 78 (90.7) | 0.217 | 32 (37.2) | 27 (31.4) | <0.001 | 28 (32.6) | <0.001 |
| Secondary | 56 (86.2) | – | 35 (53.8) | – | 61 (93.8) | – | 28 (43.1) | 31 (47.7) | – | 37 (56.9) | ||
| Tertiary | 29 (100.0) | – | 25 (86.2) | – | 29 (100.0) | – | 9 (31.0) | 20 (69.0) | – | 27 (93.1) | ||
| Employment Status | Employed | 44 (91.7) | – | 35 (72.9) | <0.001 | 46 (95.8) | 0.190 | 15 (31.3) | 29 (60.4) | 0.039 | 35 (72.9) | 0.001 |
| Self-Employed | 48 (76.2) | 0.015 | 26 (41.3) | 61 (96.8) | – | 23 (36.5) | 27 (42.9) | – | 31 (49.2) | |||
| Unemployed | 47 (69.1) | 22 (32.4) | 61 (89.7) | – | 31 (45.6) | 22 (32.4) | – | 26 (38.2) | ||||
| Income | <=20,000 | 112 (74.7) | 60 (40.0) | <0.001 | 139 (92.7) | 0.423 | 61 (40.7) | 59 (39.3) | 0.051 | 67 (44.7) | <0.001 | |
| >20,000 | 27 (90.0) | 0.068 | 23 (76.7) | – | 29 (96.7) | – | 8 (26.7) | 19 (63.3) | 25 (83.3) | |||
| Civic Status | Married | 40 (81.6) | 29 (59.2) | 0.054 | 46 (93.9) | 0.854 | 20 (40.8) | 24 (49.0) | 0.449 | 37 (75.5) | <0.001 | |
| Separated/Divorced/Widowed | 47 (77.0) | 0.590 | 22 (36.1) | – | 56 (91.8) | – | 25 (41.0) | 23 (37.7) | – | 21 (34.4) | ||
| Single | 50 (73.5) | 31 (45.6) | 64 (94.1) | 24 (35.3) | 29 (42.6) | 33 (48.5) | ||||||
| Current Substance use | None | 29 (90.6) | 0.046 | 19 (59.4) | 0.097 | 32 (100) | 0.095 | 14 (43.8) | 16 (50.0) | 0.143 | 22 (68.8) | 0.028 |
| Yes | 110 (74.3) | 64 (43.2) | 136 (91.9) | – | 58 (39.2) | 59 (39.9) | 70 (47.3) | |||||
| Phone Ownership | No | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 (7.3) | <0.001 |
| Yes | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 89 (64.0) | ||
| Smart Phone Ownership | No | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 (11.3) | <0.001 |
| Yes | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 81 (97.6) | ||