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Table 1 Respondent and household characteristics by knowledge of volunteering counseling and testing from Ogumaniha baseline survey, Zambézia, Mozambique 2010

From: HIV testing service awareness and service uptake among female heads of household in rural Mozambique: results from a province-wide survey

 

Unaware of VCT

Aware of VCT

Combined

 

(n = 2546)

(n = 1162)

(n = 3708)

Age of respondent in years (range) a

30 (23 – 38)

27(23–35)

29 (23–37)

Education in years (range) a

0 (0 – 3)

3 (0 – 5)

2 (0–4)

Distance of Enumeration Area from health facility in km (range) a

7.6 (4.4 –11.3)

5.0 (1.0 – 9.3)

6.6 (3.3 - 10.3)

Urban/rural b

   

 Rural

90%

66%

80%

 Urban

10%

34%

20%

Primary language of household b

   

 Cinyanja

12%

20%

15%

 Cisena

18%

6%

13%

 Echuabo

24%

23%

24%

 Elomwe

44%

34%

40%

 Emakhuwa

<1%

<1%

1%

 Portuguese

2%

17%

8%

Respondent understands Portuguese b

33%

48%

39%

Marital status b

   

 Married/Common Law

75%

73%

74%

 Divorced/Separated

4%

4%

4%

 Single

17%

17%

17%

 Widowed

4%

6%

5%

Religion b

   

 Catholic

44%

45%

45%

 Protestant

14%

16%

15%

 Evangelical and Pentecostal

17%

16%

16%

 Other Christianc

3%

7%

4%

 Muslim

10%

7%

9%

 Non-Christian Eastern

3%

2%

2%

 Otherc

9%

7%

8%

Decision maker for pregnancy health care b

   

 Both

52%

57%

54%

 Men

18%

13%

16%

 Women

30%

31%

30%

Decision maker for child health care b

   

 Both

66%

70%

67%

 Men

16%

11%

14%

 Women

18%

20%

19%

  1. Legend:
  2. aContinuous variables are reported as weighted estimates of median (interquartile range), with each observation being weighted by the inverse of the household sampling probability.
  3. bCategorical variables are reported as weighted percentages, with each observation being weighted by the inverse of the household sampling probability.
  4. c‘Other Christian’ includes Latter day Saint/Mormon and Jehovah’s Witness. ‘Other’ includes Spiritual, Traditional Religions, and Agnostic or Atheist.