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Table 2 Contextual factors and characteristics of the study participants

From: Contextual and psychosocial factors predicting Ebola prevention behaviours using the RANAS approach to behaviour change in Guinea-Bissau

Variables

Scale

n

M

SD

Age in years

 

1313

38.19

13.79

Household size

 

1365

10.91

7.22

Wealth

0–1

1362

.33

.20

  

n

%

 

Gender (% men)

0

626

45.7

 

Gender (% women)

1

743

54.3

 

Owning a mobile phone

 

1370

76.8

 

Literacy (% can neither read nor write)

 

493

36.5

 

Literacy (% can read only)

 

19

1.4

 

Literacy (% can read and write)

 

839

62.1

 
  1. Notes. M mean, SD standard deviation