Table 3.
General information about the surveyed residents of the villages of Talap (main group) and Malshybai (comparison group) with winter quarters in the Ulytau district of the Karaganda region.
| Main group (Talap village) | Comparison group (Malshybai village) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | 260 | 146 | |
| Women, n (%) | 141 (54.2) | 67 (45.9) | |
| Men, n (%) | 119 (45.8) | 79 (54.1) | |
| Age, n (%) | 18–29 | 49 (18.8) | 16 (11.0) |
| 30–39 | 29 (11.2) | 17 (11.6) | |
| 40–49 | 51 (19.6) | 38 (26.0) | |
| 50–59 | 60 (23.1) | 39 (26.7) | |
| 60 and above | 71 (27.3) | 36 (24.7) | |
| Ethnic group | Kazakh | 222 (85.4) | 138 (94.5) |
| Russian | 31 (11.9) | 6 (4.1) | |
| Other | 7 (2.7) | 2 (1.4) | |
| Employment status, n (%) | Unemployed | 13 (5.0) | 17 (11.6) |
| Housewife | 7 (2.7) | 13 (8.9) | |
| Pensioner | 50 (19.2) | 24 (16.4) | |
| Self-employed | 10 (3.8) | 20 (13.7) | |
| Governmental employee | 53 (20.4) | 16 (11.0) | |
| Student | 4 (1.5) | ||
| Employed and other types of work | 123 (47.3) | 56 (38.4) | |
| Education, (%) | No education | 1.2 | 3.5 |
| Primary | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
| General secondary education | 28.5 | 58.7 | |
| Special secondary | 55.9 | 23.8 | |
| Higher | 14.1 | 13.3 | |
| Disability, n (%) | 23 (8.8) | 10 (6.8) | |
| Smokers, n (%) | 35 (13.5) | 28 (19.2) | |