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Table 2 Cervical Cancer Screening Participation of Women aged 18 and above by Province and Urban-Rural Areas

From: Disparities in cervical cancer screening participation in Iran: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2016 nationwide STEPS survey

Province

n

Provincial Participation rate

Urban

Participation rate

Rural Participation rate

P-value

Alborz

511

44.4%

45.8%

31.3%

0.054

Ardabil

231

36.8%

40.0%

30.9%

0.169

Bushehr

209

37.8%

42.3%

29.2%

0.062

Chaharmahaal and Bakhtiari

330

42.7%

38.8%

48.5%

0.079

East-Azerbaijan

677

34.7%

36.6%

30.7%

0.134

Fars

938

54.8%

55.0%

54.5%

0.884

Gilan

485

43.9%

46.6%

39.6%

0.127

Golestan

304

29.3%

32.1%

26.2%

0.261

Hamadan

344

47.1%

52.4%

39.1%

0.015

Hormozgan

304

25.3%

32.3%

18.1%

0.005

Ilam

231

45.9%

53.6%

34.4%

0.004

Isfahan

985

61.2%

61.1%

62.2%

0.798

Kerman

535

24.5%

32.1%

14.1%

< 0.001

Kermanshah

384

44.3%

45.6%

41.5%

0.447

Khorasan-Razavi

1097

37.8%

42.6%

25.6%

< 0.001

Khuzestan

799

34.4%

36.3%

30.2%

0.095

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

275

53.5%

53.8%

53.0%

0.892

Kurdistan

298

37.2%

41.6%

28.1%

0.025

Lorestan

332

35.2%

37.9%

31.0%

0.198

Markazi

276

42.8%

46.2%

33.8%

0.060

Mazandaran

581

44.4%

46.8%

41.7%

0.219

Qazvin

231

52.4%

50.0%

58.0%

0.267

Semnan

247

40.1%

39.2%

43.1%

0.591

Sistan and Baluchestan

409

7.6%

6.8%

8.3%

0.561

South-Khorasan

618

35.4%

39.4%

31.2%

0.033

Tehran

2313

51.4%

51.5%

49.7%

0.634

West-Azerbaijan

578

25.4%

28.0%

20.8%

0.055

Yazd

358

41.3%

41.1%

42.6%

0.823

Zanjan

380

32.6%

36.1%

26.8%

0.059

Total

15,260

41.6%

44.7%

34.3%

< 0.001

  1. N number of women interviewed in each province; P-value obtained from Pearson Chi-Square test