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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants by working venues (%)

From: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome/human immunodeficiency virus knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and use of healthcare services among rural migrants: a cross-sectional study in China

Characteristics

Domestic servers

Factory workers

Street vendors

Catering/hotel server

Construction workers

Day laborers

Entertainment workers

Total

Total respondents

106

448

432

441

448

435

443

2753

Age (year)a

        

< = 24

8.5

35.7

34.3

65.5

8.0

7.6

59.1

34.0

25 ~ 34

20.8

34.6

28.9

22.7

25.4

35.4

32.7

29.6

35 ~ 44

54.7

23.2

26.2

8.8

40.4

44.6

5.4

25.9

45~

16.0

6.5

10.6

2.9

26.1

12.4

2.7

10.5

Sexb

        

Male

13.2

52.7

39.4

40.8

92.6

74.3

18.3

51.5

Female

86.8

47.3

60.6

59.2

7.4

25.7

81.7

48.5

Monthly income (yuan)a

        

<1000

92.5

48.4

61.4

77.1

42.5

81.3

44.9

60.4

1000 ~ 1500

6.6

33.9

16.2

14.5

29.2

14.3

22.1

21.2

> = 1500

0.9

17.6

22.5

8.4

28.3

4.4

33.0

18.4

Education levela

        

Primary school or lower

34.9

12.5

17.2

5.2

35.9

33.3

9.7

19.6

Middle school

53.8

61.2

55.2

57.1

49.3

52.4

60.0

55.8

High school or above

11.3

26.3

27.6

37.6

14.7

14.3

30.3

24.6

Marital status

        

Unmarried

8.5

35.3

32.6

64.2

14.3

16.1

52.4

34.8

Married

91.5

64.7

67.4

35.8

85.7

83.9

47.6

65.2

Live with spouseb

96

290

289

154

373

354

202

1758

Yes

59.4

67.9

86.2

61.7

42.4

54.8

58.9

60.8

No

40.6

32.1

13.8

38.3

57.6

45.2

41.1

39.2

Migrant citiesa

        

0

58.5

53.1

51.6

55.3

30.6

36.8

49.7

46.6

1

21.7

25.9

22.9

22.9

15.0

21.8

26.4

22.4

> = 2

19.8

21.0

25.5

21.8

54.5

41.4

23.9

30.9

Work yearsa

        

<=6

43.4

49.8

45.8

68.0

30.8

36.1

65.5

49.1

>6

56.6

50.2

54.2

32.0

69.2

63.9

34.5

50.9

AIDS/HIV knowledge scorea

        

0-5

56.1

38.3

39.3

38.6

49.7

43.2

37.1

41.4

6-8

43.9

61.7

60.7

61.4

50.3

56.8

62.9

58.6

Work with AIDS patienta

        

Unwilling

65.3

45.2

45.8

41.9

60.2

61.9

42.8

49.8

Willing but have no touch

23.5

30.9

27.7

30.0

21.5

24.3

29.6

27.4

Willing

11.2

19.4

21.2

26.2

16.5

11.9

23.9

19.8

Confused

0.0

4.4

5.3

1.9

1.8

1.9

3.6

3.1

Commercial sexa

        

Agree

0.0

1.8

0.5

2.6

4.6

2.1

3.6

2.4

Disagree

84.8

75.5

76.6

75.3

62.8

72.5

58.1

70.9

Not care about

15.2

22.7

23.0

22.1

32.6

25.4

38.3

26.7

Casual sexa

        

Agree

0.0

4.9

3.9

11.4

6.7

6.2

9.1

6.7

Disagree

84.6

65.2

62.0

57.0

55.7

66.6

54.7

61.3

Not care about

15.4

29.9

34.1

31.6

37.6

27.2

36.3

32.0

  1. Note: ameans P < 0.01; bmeans P < 0.05.