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Table 2 Descriptive analysis of the participants’ variables (individual), n = 85,231 participants, Brazil 2017

From: Indicators for dental appointment scheduling in primary health care: a national cross-sectional study

Variable

Category

Frequency (%)

Sought dental care (outcome)

Yes

49,500 (58.1%)

No

35,731 (41.9%)

Gender

Male

18,360 (21.5%)

Female

66,871 (78.5%)

Marital status

Single

19,655 (23.1%)

Married or in a common-law marriage

54,009 (63.4%)

Divorced/Separated

5677 (6.7%)

Widowed

5890 (6.9%)

Self-declared ethnicity

White

25,645 (30.1%)

Black

10,857 (12.7%)

Yellow

2610 (3.1%)

Brown/Mixed-race

44,227 (51.9%)

Indigenous

753 (0.9%)

No information

1139 (1.3%)

Level of schooling

Illiterate

4818 (5.7%)

Literate

4525 (5.3%)

Incomplete Elementary School

27,808 (32.6%)

Complete Elementary School

8634 (10.1%)

Incomplete High School

8839 (10.4%)

Complete High School

22,755 (26.7%)

Incomplete Higher Education

2977 (3.5%)

Complete Higher Education

3894 (4.6%)

Postgraduate Education

858 (1.0%)

No information

123 (0.1%)

 

Mean (standard deviation)

Median (minimum and maximum value)

Age

43.74 (16.31)

42.0 (18.0; 99.0)

Income

1585.58 (2854.39)

980.0 (1.0; 98.500.0)

Number of people in the family

3.60 (1.66)

3.0 (1.0; 30.0)