|
Characteristic
|
< 30 years (n = 187)
|
≥ 30 years (n = 177)
|
Total (N = 364)
|
P-valuea
|
|---|
|
Median age in years (IQR)
|
25 (23–28)
|
37 (32–42
|
29 (25–36)
| |
|
Main home language
|
|
Afrikaans
|
13 (7%)
|
21 (11.9%)
|
34 (9.3%)
|
0.272
|
|
English
|
1 (0.5%)
|
3 (1.7%)
|
4 (1.1%)
|
|
isiXhosa
|
165 (88.2%)
|
145 (81.9%)
|
310 (85.2%)
|
|
Other
|
8 (4.3%)
|
8 (4.5%)
|
16 (4.4%)
|
|
Languages spoken (after main home language)
|
|
Afrikaans
|
29 (15.5%)
|
45 (25.4%)
|
74 (20.3%)
|
0.019
|
|
English
|
158 (84.5%)
|
132 (74.6%)
|
315 (86.5%)
|
0.012
|
|
isiXhosa
|
174 (93.1%)
|
150 (84.8%)
|
324 (89.0%)
|
0.011
|
|
Other
|
25 (13.4%)
|
27 (15.3%)
|
52 (14.3%)
|
0.607
|
|
Highest level of education
| | | |
0.007b
|
|
Primary or less
|
16 (8.6%)
|
35 (19.8%)
|
51 (14.0%)
| |
|
Secondary
|
167 (89.3%)
|
137 (77.4%)
|
304 (83.5%)
| |
|
Post-secondary
|
4 (2.1%)
|
5 (2.8%)
|
9 (2.5%)
| |
|
Formal housing
|
83 (44.4%)
|
81 (45.8%)
|
164 (45.1%)
|
0.792
|
|
Median number of people living in home (IQR)
|
4 (3–6)
|
4 (3–5)
|
4 (3–6)
|
0.029c
|
|
Employed
|
52 (27.8%)
|
81 (45.8%)
|
133 (36.5%)
|
< 0.001
|
- (IQR Interquartile range)
- aP-value for Chi-squared test unless otherwise stated
- bFishers exact test
- cKruskal-Wallis test
