Table 2 Characteristics of the total sample (n = 355), men (n = 175) and women (n = 180), Saharawi refugee camps, Algeria 2014
From: Dietary diversity is related to socioeconomic status among adult Saharawi refugees living in Algeria
Characteristic | Totala | Mena | Womena | P-value* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
Age (years) | 42 | 17 | 43 | 19 | 40 | 14 | 0.172 |
Weight (kg) | 66.9 | 14.1 | 64.0 | 13.3 | 67.9 | 14.7 | 0.010 |
Height (cm) | 162.9 | 9.2 | 169.0 | 7.7 | 157.1 | 6.4 | <0.001 |
Waist (cm) | 85.7 | 13.6 | 81.5 | 12.7 | 89.9 | 13.3 | <0.001 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 25.0 | 5.6 | 22.4 | 4.2 | 27.6 | 5.7 | <0.001 |
< 18.5 | 38 (11) | 34 (19) | 4 (2) | <0.001 | |||
18.5–24.9 | 156 (45) | 97 (55) | 59 (34) | <0.001 | |||
25.0–29.9 | 89 (25) | 35 (20) | 54 (31) | 0.017 | |||
> 30.0 | 67 (19) | 9 (5) | 58 (33) | <0.001 | |||
Education | |||||||
None | 106 (30) | 48 (27) | 58 (32) | 0.384 | |||
1st-6th grade | 82 (23) | 33 (19) | 49 (27) | 0.081 | |||
7th–9th grade | 95 (27) | 50 (29) | 45 (25) | 0.522 | |||
10th–12th grade | 56 (16) | 34 (19) | 22 (12) | 0.086 | |||
Higher education | 16 (4) | 10 (6) | 6 (4) | 0.409 | |||
Married | 204 (58) | 97 (55) | 107 (59) | 0.511 | |||
Livestockb | 237 (67) | 121 (69) | 116 (64) | 0.347 | |||
Cultivating vegetablesc | 35 (10) | 22 (13) | 13 (7) | 0.091 | |||