Table 1 Characteristics of attrition in RAIHIs cohort study
Reason for attrition (The denominator is total LTFUa) | Total (The denominator is the total sample size) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unknown reason | Sickness | Died | ||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | N | % | |
Overall | 1072 | 97.0 | 13 | 1.2 | 20 | 1.8 | 1105 | 8.0% |
Age group | ||||||||
16-24 | 592 | 98.7 | 4 | 0.7 | 4 | 0.7 | 600 | 4.4 |
25-49 | 457 | 96.2 | 9 | 1.9 | 9 | 1.9 | 475 | 3.5 |
50+ | 23 | 76.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 23.3 | 30 | 0.2 |
Sex | ||||||||
Male | 596 | 97.4 | 3 | 0.5 | 13 | 2.1 | 612 | 4.5 |
Female | 476 | 96.6 | 10 | 2.0 | 7 | 1.4 | 493 | 3.6 |
Marital Status | ||||||||
Not living in union | 729 | 98.0 | 8 | 1.1 | 7 | 0.9 | 744 | 5.4 |
Married/Cohabiting | 343 | 95.0 | 5 | 1.4 | 13 | 3.6 | 361 | 2.6 |
Residence | ||||||||
Rural | 764 | 96.5 | 12 | 1.5 | 16 | 2.0 | 792 | 5.8 |
Urban | 308 | 98.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 4 | 1.3 | 313 | 2.3 |
Province | ||||||||
North | 121 | 95.3 | 3 | 2.4 | 3 | 2.4 | 127 | 0.9 |
South | 179 | 95.7 | 2 | 1.1 | 6 | 3.2 | 187 | 1.4 |
East | 230 | 97.5 | 2 | 0.8 | 4 | 1.7 | 236 | 1.7 |
West | 197 | 94.7 | 6 | 2.9 | 5 | 2.4 | 208 | 1.5 |
City of Kigali | 345 | 99.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.6 | 347 | 2.5 |
Religion | ||||||||
Christians | 1000 | 97.0 | 12 | 1.2 | 19 | 1.8 | 1031 | 7.5 |
Other | 72 | 97.3 | 1 | 1.4 | 1 | 1.4 | 74 | 0.5 |
Completed level of education | ||||||||
No education/primary | 757 | 95.9 | 13 | 1.6 | 19 | 2.4 | 789 | 5.7 |
Secondary/vocational/high education | 315 | 99.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 316 | 2.3 |
Wealth index | ||||||||
Lowest/second/middle | 481 | 95.1 | 12 | 2.4 | 13 | 2.6 | 506 | 3.7 |
Fourth/highest | 591 | 98.7 | 1 | 0.2 | 7 | 1.2 | 599 | 4.4 |