Table 1 Socio-economic characteristics of 1300 participants of nationally representative of Jordanian men and women older than 18 years-old according to their age group
Variables | Total (%) | Males (Age group) | Female (Age Group) | Gender differences (p-value) c | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (%) | < 30 | 30–50 | > 50 | p-value a | Total (%) | < 30 | 30–50 | > 50 | p-value b | ||||
Total | 1300 (100) | 656 | 166 (25.30) | 281 (42.84) | 209 (31.86) | 644 | 147 (22.83) | 324 (50.31) | 173 (26.86) | ||||
Marital status | < 0.01 | ||||||||||||
Married | 927 (71.31) | 509 (77.59) | 40 (7.9) | 262 (51.5) | 207 (40.6) | < 0.01 | 540 (83.85) | 80 (14.8) | 293 (64.3) | 167 (30.9) | < 0.01 | ||
Unmarried | 373 (28.7) | 147 (22.41) | 126 (85.7) | 19 (12.9) | 2 (1.4) | 104 (16.15) | 67 (64.4) | 31 (29.8) | 6 (5.8) | ||||
Age at marriage | < 0.01 | ||||||||||||
≤18 | 142 (13.54) | 13 (2.6) | 1 (7.7) | 5 (38.5) | 7 (53.8) | 0.6 | 129 (23.9) | 14 (10.85) | 51 (39.53) | 64 (94.61) | < 0.01 | ||
Region | 0.04 | ||||||||||||
Capital | 315 (24.23) | 147 (22.4) | 40 (27.2) | 56 (38.1) | 51 (34.7) | 0.59 | 168 (26.1) | 29 (17.26) | 82 (48.81) | 57 (33.93) | < 0.01 | ||
North | 417 (32.08) | 228 (34.8) | 54 (23.7) | 97 (42.5) | 77 (33.8) | 189 (29.3) | 52 (27.5) | 88 (46.6) | 49 (25.9) | ||||
Central | 300 (23.08) | 141 (22.4) | 37 (26.2) | 64 (45.4) | 40 (28.4) | 159 (24.7) | 31 (19.5) | 84 (52.83) | 44 (27.67) | ||||
Southern | 268 (20.62) | 140 (21.4) | 35 (25) | 64 (45.7) | 41 (29.3) | 128 (19.9) | 35 (27.3) | 70 (54.7) | 23 (18) | ||||
Income (JOD)d | < 0.01 | ||||||||||||
≤350 | 701 (53.92) | 314 (47.87) | 81 (25.8) | 128 (40.76) | 105 (33.44) | 0.83 | 387 (60.1) | 75 (19.4) | 197 (50.9) | 115 (29.7) | 0.03 | ||
350–700 | 493 (37.92) | 277 (42.23) | 64 (23.10) | 131 (47.29) | 82 (29.60) | 216 (33.5) | 63 (29.2) | 105 (48.6) | 48 (22.2) | ||||
≥700 | 106 (8.15) | 65 (9.91) | 21 (32.31) | 22 (33.85) | 22 (33.85) | 41 (6.4) | 9 (22) | 22 (53.6) | 10 (24.4) | ||||
Level of education | 0.63 | ||||||||||||
Illiterate | 44 (3.38) | 17 (2.6) | 1 (5.9) | 6 (35.3) | 10 (58.8) | 0.01 | 27 (4.2) | 1 (3.7) | 8 (29.6) | 18 (66.7) | < 0.01 | ||
Less than secondary | 425 (32.69) | 223 (34) | 43 (19.3) | 95 (42.6) | 85 (38.1) | 202 (31.4) | 22 (10.9) | 97 (48) | 83 (41.1) | ||||
Secondary | 422 (32.46) | 217 (33.1) | 63 (29) | 107 (49.3) | 47 (21.7) | 205 (31.8) | 56 (27.3) | 111 (54.2) | 38 (18.5) | ||||
Above secondary | 409 (31.46) | 199 (30.3) | 59 (29.6) | 73 (36.7) | 67 (33.7) | 210 (32.6) | 68 (32.4) | 108 (51.4) | 34 (16.2) | ||||
Household member | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
≤3 | 280 (21.54) | 125 (19.05) | 33 (26.4) | 37 (29.6) | 55 (44) | 0.09 | 155 (24.07) | 31 (20) | 40 (25.8) | 84 (54.2) | < 0.01 | ||
4–6 | 632 (48.62) | 319 (48.63) | 77 (24.1) | 152 (47.7) | 90 (2) | 313 (48.60) | 73 (23.3) | 174 (55.6) | 66 (21.1) | ||||
> 6 | 388 (29.85) | 212 (32.32) | 56 (26.4) | 92 (43.4) | 64 (30.2) | 176 (27.33) | 43 (24.4) | 110 (62.5) | 23 (13.1) | ||||