Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the study population in Ethiopia
From: Stigma matters in ending tuberculosis: Nationwide survey of stigma in Ethiopia
General population | Families of TB patients | TB patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variables | Categories | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
Gender | Male | 835 | 46.8 | 407 | 48.7 | 488 | 57.8 |
Female | 948 | 53.2 | 429 | 51.3 | 356 | 42.2 | |
Age in years | 18–30 | 872 | 48.9 | 405 | 48.4 | 251 | 29.7 |
31–60 | 828 | 46.4 | 414 | 49.5 | 246 | 29.1 | |
>60 | 83 | 4.7 | 17 | 2.0 | 164 | 19.4 | |
Relationship | Head | 869 | 48.7 | 329 | 39.4 | 93 | 11.0 |
Spouse | 597 | 33.5 | 248 | 29.7 | 52 | 6.2 | |
Son/Daughter | 266 | 14.9 | 160 | 19.1 | 38 | 4.5 | |
Other relative | 44 | 2.5 | 88 | 10.5 | 396 | 46.9 | |
Non-relative | 7 | 0.4 | 11 | 1.3 | 189 | 22.4 | |
Marital Status | Married | 1176 | 66 | 543 | 65.0 | 186 | 22.0 |
Never married | 343 | 19.2 | 203 | 24.3 | 7 | 0.8 | |
Divorced | 143 | 8 | 46 | 5.5 | 4 | 0.5 | |
Widowed | 107 | 6 | 38 | 4.5 | 434 | 51.4 | |
Living together | 14 | 0.8 | 6 | 0.7 | 283 | 33.5 | |
Educational Status | Illiterate | 537 | 30.1 | 283 | 33.9 | 66 | 7.8 |
Read and write only | 128 | 7.2 | 51 | 6.1 | 57 | 6.8 | |
Primary | 517 | 29 | 227 | 27.2 | 4 | 0.5 | |
Secondary | 398 | 22.3 | 173 | 20.7 | 292 | 34.7 | |
Above secondary | 203 | 11.4 | 102 | 12.2 | 40 | 4.7 | |
Occupation | Employed | 210 | 11.8 | 126 | 15.1 | 263 | 31.2 |
House wife | 393 | 22 | 178 | 21.3 | 163 | 19.3 | |
Farmer | 322 | 18.1 | 178 | 21.3 | 85 | 10.1 | |
Daily laborer | 179 | 10 | 80 | 9.6 | 102 | 12.1 | |
Trader | 381 | 21.4 | 121 | 14.5 | 114 | 13.5 | |
Student | 136 | 7.6 | 84 | 10.0 | 203 | 24.1 | |
No job/dependent | 114 | 6.4 | 47 | 5.6 | 103 | 12.2 | |
House maid | 38 | 2.1 | 19 | 2.3 | 85 | 10.1 | |
Other | 10 | 0.6 | 3 | 0.4 | 109 | 12.9 | |
Wealth Quintile | Lowest | 355 | 19.9 | 166 | 19.9 | 102 | 12.1 |
Second | 350 | 19.6 | 169 | 20.2 | 18 | 2.1 | |
Third | 365 | 20.5 | 162 | 19.4 | 8 | 0.9 | |
Fourth | 352 | 19.7 | 173 | 20.7 | 168 | 19.9 | |
Highest | 361 | 20.2 | 166 | 19.9 | 169 | 20.0 | |