Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of PLHIV respondents
Variable | Percentage (%) (n = 556) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Age | Â | Male | Female |
19–25 | 3.4 | 24.3 | |
26–32 | 27.5 | 42.8 | |
33–40 | 49.3 | 30.8 | |
41–45 | 19.8 | 2.2 | |
Educational status | Illiterate | 12.4 | 16.0 |
Primary & Middle | 24.3 | 34.7 | |
High school & intermediate | 48.4 | 41.9 | |
Graduate | 8.8 | 4.9 | |
Professional degree | 6.1 | 2.5 | |
Occupation | Skilled & semi-skilled | 37.9 | 3.6 |
Unskilled | 36.0 | 90.1 | |
Professional or semi-professional | 2.7 | 1.4 | |
Business, farmer, clerical | 22.8 | 4.7 | |
Unemployed | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
Place of residence | Urban slum | 18.9 | |
Urban non-slum | 51.3 | ||
Rural | 29.7 | ||
Socio-economic classification of the family | Modified Kuppuswamy classification, 2019 | ||
Upper | 0.0 | ||
Upper-middle | 6.8 | ||
Lower-middle | 46.9 | ||
Upper-lower | 45.0 | ||
Lower | 1.3 | ||