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. 2023 Jan 18;32:102114. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102114

Table 1.

Age, education, and employment status of survey participants.

Rural Urban Subtotal (male and female) Subtotal (rural and urban) Total
Female (n = 164) Male (n=110) Female (n=104) Male (n=153) Rural (n=274) Urban (n=257) Female (n=268) Male (n=263) (n=531)
Age
Median age (years) 40 41.5 35 34 40.5 34 38 36 37
Interquartile Range 29.5 34 18 17 32 17 25.5 23 24
Age group
18–35 65 (39.63%) 47 (42.72%) 53 (50.96%) 83 (54.24%) 112 (40.87%) 136 (52.91%) 118 (44.02%) 130 (49.42%) 248 (46.70%)
36–55 55 (33.53%) 27 (24.54%) 36 (34.61%) 56 (36.60%) 82 (29.92%) 92 (35.79%) 91 (33.95%) 83 (31.55%) 174 (32.76%)
56 and over 44 (26.82%) 36 (32.72%) 15 (14.42%) 14 (9.15%) 80 (29.19%) 29 (11.28%) 59 (22.01%) 50 (19.01%) 109 (20.52%)
Education
None 22 (13.41%) 11 (10.00%) 0 (0.00%) 2 (1.31%) 33 (12.04%) 2 (0.78%) 22 (8.27%) 13 (4.96%) 35 (6.62%)
Primary 44 (26.82%) 42 (38.18%) 8 (7.84%) 5 (3.28%) 86 (31.38%) 13 (5.11%) 52 (19.54%) 47 (17.93%) 99 (18.75%)
Secondary 84 (51.21%) 54 (49.09%) 53 (51.96%) 93 (61.18%) 138 (50.36%) 146 (57.48%) 137 (51.50%) 147 (56.10%) 284 (53.78%)
College/vocational training 10 (6.09%) 3 (2.72%) 16 (15.68%) 20 (13.15%) 13 (4.74%) 36 (14.17%) 26 (9.77%) 23 (8.77%) 49 (9.28%)
University Degree/Bachelor's 4 (2.43%) 0 (0.00%) 21 (20.58%) 30 (19.73%) 4 (1.45%) 51 (20.07%) 25 (9.39%) 30 (11.45%) 55 (10.41%)
Postgraduate/Master's 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 4 (3.92%) 2 (1.31%) 0 (0.00%) 6 (2.36%) 4 (1.50%) 2 (0.76%) 6 (1.13%)
Other 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%)
Employment
Unemployed 112 (68.29%) 70 (63.63%) 25 (24.03%) 33 (21.56%) 182 (66.42%) 58 (22.56%) 137 (51.11%) 103 (39.16%) 240 (45.19%)
Student 11 (6.70%) 4 (3.63%) 11 (10.57%) 10 (6.53%) 15 (5.47%) 21 (8.17%) 22 (8.20%) 14 (5.32%) 36 (6.77%)
Employed, part-time 11 (6.70%) 6 (5.45%) 12 (11.53%) 24 (15.68%) 17 (6.20%) 36 (14.00%) 23 (8.58%) 30 (11.40%) 53 (9.98%)
Employed, full-time 7 (4.26%) 8 (7.27%) 45 (43.26%) 58 (37.90%) 15 (5.47%) 103 (40.07%) 52 (19.40%) 66 (25.09%) 118 (22.22%)
Self-employed, part-time 2 (1.21%) 2 (1.81%) 2 (1.92%) 4 (2.61%) 4 (1.45%) 6 (2.33%) 4 (1.49%) 6 (2.28%) 10 (1.88%)
Self-employed, full-time 0 (0.00%) 2 (1.81%) 4 (3.84%) 19 (12.41%) 2 (0.72%) 23 (8.94%) 4 (1.49%) 21 (7.98%) 25 (4.70%)
Retired on a pension 21 (12.80%) 18 (16.36%) 5 (4.80%) 5 (3.26%) 39 (14.23%) 10 (3.89%) 26 (9.70%) 23 (8.74%) 49 (9.22%)