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Table 1 Demographic differences among 398 participants by gender

From: Gender difference in the characteristics of and high-risk behaviours among non-injecting heterosexual methamphetamine users in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Variable

Total (N=398)

Male (N=288)

Female (N=110)

t

X2

P value

Age, M (SD), range

32.3 (9.6), 16-67

34.2 (1.0), 16-67

27.0 (6.3), 19-48

7.11

 

<0.05

Marital status

 Single, n (%)

128 (32.2)

73 (25.3)

55 (50.0)

 

38.302

<0.05

 Married, n (%)

256 (64.3)

203 (70.5)

53 (40.9)

   

 Divorced, n (%)

14 (3.5)

12 (4.2)

2 (9.1)

   

Ethnicity

 Han, n (%)

353 (88.7)

262 (91.0)

91 (82.7)

 

5.772

>0.05

 Korean, n (%)

26 (6.5)

14 (4.9)

12 (10.9)

   

 Others, n (%)

19(4.8)

12 (4.2)

7 (6.4)

   

Education

 Elementary school, n (%)

18 (4.5)

15 (5.2)

3 (2.7)

 

1.671

>0.05

 Middle school, n (%)

276 (69.3)

201 (69.8)

75 (68.2)

   

 High/technical school, n (%)

92 (23.1)

64 (22.2)

28 (25.5)

   

 College or above, n (%)

12 (3.0)

8 (2.8)

4 (3.6)

   

Residency

 Permanent residents, n (%)

302 (75.9)

249 (86.5)

53 (48.2)

 

63.717

<0.05

 Mobile population, n (%)

96 (24.1)

39 (13.5)

57 (51.8)

   

Employment

 Self-employed, n (%)

224 (56.3)

211 (73.3)

13 (11.8)

 

177.11

<0.05

 Commercial service, n (%)

76 (19.1)

14 (4.9)

62 (56.4)

   

 Unemployed, n (%)

81 (20.4)

47 (16.3)

34 (30.9)

   

 Others, n (%)

17 (4.3)

16 (5.6)

1 (0.9)

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