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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the study participants

From: Knowledge of, attitudes towards, and practice relating to schistosomiasis in two subtypes of a mountainous region of the People’s Republic of China

Characteristics

Total N = 2734

Community

χ 2

P-Value

Yongle

Xinzhuang

N = 1956

N = 778

Gender

Male

47

48.3

43.7

4.647

0.031

Female

53

51.7

56.3

Immigrant

Yes

1.2

1.2

1.0

0.190

0.663

No

98.8

98.8

99

Age group (years)

5 – 15

20

21.7

15.7

45.64

<0.001

16 – 30

19.3

21.4

14.3

31 – 45

34.3

33.2

37

46 – 65

25.4

22.9

31.7

≥66

1.0

0.8

1.3

Ethnicity

Han

73.2

95.7

16.6

N/A

<0.001 a

Bai

26.4

3.8

83.2

Other

0.4

0.5

0.2

Occupation

Farmer

78.6

76.8

83

N/A

<0.001 a

Fisherman

0.4

0.5

0.1

Herdsman

0.2

0.3

0

Worker

0

0.1

0

Student

20.1

21.8

15.8

Pre-school

0.3

0.4

0.1

Business

0.2

0

0.8

Government

0.1

0.1

0

Other

0.1

0.1

0.1

Education

Illiterate

12.2

10.6

16.3

N/A

<0.001 a

Primary school

48.9

48.2

50.6

Junior high school

34.4

36.6

28.9

Senior high school

3.9

4.1

3.3

College and above

0.6

0.5

0.8

  1. All values are percentages.
  2. N/A: not applicable.
  3. aP-value based on Fisher’s exact test and P-value highlighted in bold means the difference was statistically significant.