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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants

From: Prevalence, correlates and pattern of Hepatitis B among antenatal clinic attenders in Yaounde-Cameroon: is perinatal transmission of HBV neglected in Cameroon?

Characteristic

Number (n = 959)

Percentage (%)

Age (Years) (Mean = 27.6; SD = 5.2)

  

≤ 15

3

0.3

16 – 20

50

5.2

21 – 24

224

23.4

25 – 29

356

37.1

30 – 34

198

20.6

35 – 39

114

11.9

40 +

14

1.5

Marital status

  

Single

181

18.9

Cohabiting

186

19.4

Married

592

61.7

Educational level

  

Uneducated

4

0.4

Primary education

101

10.5

Secondary education

537

56.0

University and beyond

317

33.1

Occupational status

  

No formal employment

505

52.7

Students

232

24.2

Civil servants

157

16.4

Private sector workers

65

6.8

Gravidity

  

Primagravida

305

31.8

Multigravida

654

62.2

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