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Table 3 Sociodemographic characteristics by general health literacy

From: Associations of health literacy with socioeconomic position, health risk behavior, and health status: a large national population-based survey among Danish adults

 

Inadequate (n = 692)

Problematic (n = 2616)

Adequate (n = 5147)

Total (n = 8455)

P-value

Sex

 Female

280 (40.5)

1319 (50.4)

3043 (59.1)

4642 (54.9)

 

 Male

412 (59.5)

1297 (49.6)

2104 (40.9)

3813 (45.1)

< 1e-04

Age, Median [Q1,Q3]

51.3 [39.6, 62.1]

52.6 [40.9, 63.3]

53.9 [43.4, 64.2]

53.3 [42.4, 63.8]

< 1e-04

Age group

 25–44

251 (36.3)

862 (33.0)

1438 (27.9)

2551 (30.2)

 

 35–54

156 (22.5)

618 (23.6)

1282 (24.9)

2056 (24.3)

 

 55–64

157 (22.7)

578 (22.1)

1227 (23.8)

1962 (23.2)

 

  > 65

128 (18.5)

558 (21.3)

1200 (23.3)

1886 (22.3)

< 1e-04

Origin

 Danish

618 (89.3)

2420 (92.5)

4818 (93.6)

7856 (92.9)

 

 Immigrant

69 (10.0)

180 (6.9)

314 (6.1)

563 (6.7)

 

 Descendant of immigrant

5 (0.7)

16 (0.6)

15 (0.3)

36 (0.4)

0.0001

Civil status

 Married/Partnership

402 (58.3)

1608 (61.7)

3400 (66.1)

5410 (64.1)

 

 Divorced

84 (12.2)

327 (12.5)

675 (13.1)

1086 (12.9)

 

 Unmarried

203 (29.5)

672 (25.8)

1066 (20.7)

1941 (23.0)

< 1e-04

 Missing

3

9

6

18

 

Education

 Basic School

140 (21.3)

445 (17.4)

776 (15.5)

1361 (16.5)

 

 High school/Vocational

325 (49.4)

1130 (44.3)

2097 (41.8)

3552 (43.2)

 

 Medium

133 (20.2)

670 (26.3)

1543 (30.8)

2346 (28.5)

 

 High

60 (9.1)

307 (12.0)

600 (12.0)

967 (11.8)

< 1e-04

 Missing

34

64

131

229

 

Income

 Below average

272 (39.3)

817 (31.2)

1332 (25.9)

2421 (28.6)

 

 Above average

420 (60.7)

1799 (68.8)

3815 (74.1)

6034 (71.4)

< 1e-04

Welfare payments

 Non-social benefit

318 (46.6)

1376 (53.0)

2849 (55.8)

4543 (54.2)

 

 Retirement benefit

137 (20.1)

595 (22.9)

1267 (24.8)

1999 (23.9)

 

 Social benefit

228 (33.4)

623 (24.0)

988 (19.4)

1839 (21.9)

< 1e-04

 Missing

9

22

43

74

 
  1. Presents general health literacy scores by health literacy level (N = 8455) according to demographic and socioeconomic indicators of Danish residents aged 25 years or older in 2016 and 2017. Data are presented as medians with 25th (Q1) and 75th (Q3) percentiles (age) or number of residents and percentage (all others)