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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants in the two consecutive surveys about EVD risk perceptions

From: Changes in risk perceptions during the 2014 Ebola virus disease epidemic: results of two consecutive surveys among the general population in Lower Saxony, Germany

 

Participants in both surveys (N = 620)

Participants in first survey only (N = 354)

p-value

Age (years), median (interquartile range)

49 (37, 58)

42 (31, 53)

< 0.001

Women, N (%)

362 (58.4%)

189 (54.2%)

0.23

Highest completed educational level, N (% of 604 non-missing answers)

• Lower secondary education or apprenticeship

168 (27.8%)

75 (21.8%)

0.05

• Still at upper secondary school

8 (1.3%)

7 (2.0%)

0.57

• University entrance qualification (upper secondary education or vocational school)

168 (27.8%)

102 (29.7%)

0.6

• University degree

260 (43.1%)

160 (46.5%)

0.33

Born in Germany, N (% of 602 non-missing answers)

577 (95.8%)

325 (94.5%)

0.42