Socio-economic differences in the uptake of HIV testing and associated factors in South Africa

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Table 1 Background characteristics of the sample by socio-economic status (SES) among youth and adults 15 years and older, South Africa 2017

Variable	Overall sample		Low SES		High SES
	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

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