From: Socio-economic differences in the uptake of HIV testing and associated factors in South Africa
Variable | Overall sample | Low SES | High SES | ||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | p-values | |
Overall sample | 21,075 | 8504 | 12,571 | ||||
Age categories | |||||||
15–19 years | 2762 | 11.5 | 1242 | 12.3 | 1520 | 10.8 | < 0.001 |
20–24 years | 2578 | 12.4 | 1209 | 14.3 | 1369 | 11.0 | |
25–49 years | 9715 | 53.5 | 4021 | 54.9 | 5694 | 52.4 | |
50+ years | 6020 | 22.6 | 2032 | 18.6 | 3988 | 25.8 | |
Sex | |||||||
Male | 8812 | 47.9 | 3556 | 47.6 | 5256 | 48.2 | 0.481 |
Female | 12,263 | 52.1 | 4948 | 52.4 | 7315 | 51.8 | |
Race | |||||||
Black African | 13,747 | 79.0 | 7551 | 95.2 | 6196 | 66.1 | < 0.001 |
White | 1509 | 9.3 | 24 | 0.4 | 1485 | 16.3 | |
Coloured | 3805 | 8.9 | 875 | 4.2 | 2930 | 12.6 | |
Indian/Asian | 2014 | 2.9 | 54 | 0.2 | 1960 | 5.0 | |
Current marital status | |||||||
Married | 6758 | 29.2 | 1751 | 19.6 | 5007 | 36.8 | < 0.001 |
Not married | 14,312 | 70.8 | 6752 | 80.4 | 7560 | 63.2 | |
Highest educational level obtained | |||||||
No education/primary | 3278 | 16.8 | 1874 | 24.9 | 1404 | 10.9 | < 0.001 |
Secondary | 10,263 | 67.6 | 3889 | 70.4 | 6374 | 65.5 | |
Tertiary | 2276 | 15.6 | 201 | 4.7 | 2075 | 23.6 | |
Employment status | |||||||
Unemployed | 13,432 | 63.8 | 6053 | 71.7 | 7379 | 57.6 | < 0.001 |
Employed | 7352 | 36.2 | 2355 | 28.3 | 4997 | 42.4 | |
Locality type | |||||||
Urban | 13,810 | 69.5 | 3202 | 48.5 | 10,608 | 86.2 | < 0.001 |
Rural informal (tribal areas) | 4909 | 25.8 | 3650 | 44.8 | 1259 | 10.8 | |
Rural (farms) | 2356 | 4.7 | 1652 | 6.7 | 704 | 3.1 |