Inequalities in multimorbidity in South Africa

Table 1 Summary statistics, 2005-2008

Year of survey		2005	2006	2007	2008
		Mean
Age ^a		26.71	26.80	26.98	26.67
		(19.37)	(19.45)	(19.51)	(19.19)
		*Proportion* ( % )
Female		50.79	50.76	50.75	51.85
Marital status	Single/never married	66.15	66.49	66.81	67.69
	Married/living together	27.15	27.23	27.02	26.58
	Widow/widower	4.75	4.51	4.42	4.06
	Divorced/separated	1.94	1.78	1.75	1.67
Highest education level	No schooling	23.12	22.89	21.79	21.60
	Primary school	29.53	28.98	28.95	28.52
	Secondary school	45.29	46.06	47.05	47.54
	Tertiary	2.06	2.07	2.21	2.33
Suffer any illness or injury		12.63	12.49	11.12	13.75
Illness type	Flu	7.20	7.09	5.65	7.66
	Diarrhoea	0.56	0.58	0.42	0.64
	Trauma	0.25	0.37	0.18	0.33
	Tb	0.69	0.59	0.55	0.73
	Drug	0.06	0.05	0.03	0.07
	Depression	0.34	0.36	0.33	0.37
	Diabetes	0.65	0.60	0.55	0.77
	BP	1.53	1.23	1.19	1.55
	HIV	0.15	0.16	0.20	0.28
	STD	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.05
Suffer any disability		3.22	3.12	3.01	3.36
Disability type	Sight	0.70	0.70	0.63	0.83
	Hearing	0.49	0.50	0.46	0.52
	Speech	0.26	0.21	0.20	0.24
	Physical	1.20	1.08	1.05	1.16
	Intellectual	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.57
	Emotional	0.32	0.27	0.29	0.37
Number of observations ^b		107,987	105,727	109,975	94,097

Source: Author’s computation based on GHS 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Note: ^aStandard deviations in brackets; ^bTotal number of individuals in the dataset. Descriptive statistics were computed using only valid responses; so the number of observations will be different for each variable.

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