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Table 1 Characteristics of study participants in Can Tho, 2005.

From: Prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: results from a STEPS survey

 

Men (N = 911)

Women (N = 1067)

p

 

%

n

%

n

 

Age

     

   25–34

17.2

157

18.8

201

 

   35–44

26.9

245

27.4

292

 

   45–54

29.6

270

28.2

301

 

   55–64

26.2

239

25.6

273

0.003

Ethnicity

     

   Vietnamese

92.2

839

91.0

970

 

   Chinese

1.5

14

2.3

24

 

   Khmer

6.2

56

6.8

72

 

   Others

0.1

1

0

0

0.059

Education completed

     

   < Primary school

38.0

346

55.6

593

 

   Primary school

27.5

250

21.1

225

 

   Secondary school

17.8

162

11.9

127

 

   High school*

10.9

99

7.2

77

 

   College/University†

5.8

53

4.1

44

0.002

Employment status

     

   Employed

13.1

119

7.4

79

 

   Self-employed

62.4

568

50.2

535

 

   Non-paid/student

0.6

5

0.8

8

 

   Homemaker

0.8

7

25.5

272

 

   Retired/unemployed‡

7.0

64

4.7

50

 

   Unstably employed§

16.2

147

11.4

122

<0.001

Occupation

     

   Farmers

35.9

362

24.1

294

 

   Industrial workers

9.4

73

2.6

16

 

   Clerks

9.6

66

7.2

58

 

   Traders

13.8

107

23.7

227

 

   Homemakers

0.0

0

22.4

257

 

   Others

31.3

302

20.0

214

<0.001

  1. * High school or equivalent (technical school).
  2. † College or university degree or higher.
  3. ‡ Including 12 men and 6 women who were disabled.
  4. § People who did physical work and got paid on a daily basis.
  5. There were one man and one woman who provided only information on age and sex.
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