Self-Collected Specimens Revealed a Higher Vaccine- and Non-Vaccine-Type Human Papillomavirus Prevalences in a Cross-Sectional Study in Akuse

Table 1

Distribution of the demographic characteristics of women who did or did not report for specimen collection.

Variables	Categories	^#Number (%) of women who			Pearson chi-square (p-value)
		Reported	Did not report	Total
Age (categorised)	15–19	12 (4.8)	14 (8.7)	26 (6.3)	10.806 (0.289)
	20–24	36 (14.3)	29 (18.0)	65 (15.8)
	25–29	61(24.3)	36 (22.4)	97 (23.5)
	30–34	27 (10.8)	19 (11.8)	46 (11.2)
	35–39	36 (14.3)	16 (9.9)	52 (12.6)
	40–44	32 (12.7)	19 (11.8)	51 (12.4)
	45–49	14 (5.6)	16 (9.9)	30 (7.3)
	50–54	16 (6.4)	6 (3.7)	22 (5.3)
	55–59	9 (3.6)	4 (2.5)	13 (3.2)
	60 or older	8 (3.2)	2 (1.2)	10 (2.4)
	Total	251	161	412
Religion	Christian	242 (96.4)	131 (81.4)	373 (90.5)	26.91 (≤0.001)^∗
	Muslim	9 (3.6)	26 (16.1)	35 (8.5)
	Other	0 (0.0)	4 (2.5)	4 (1.0)
	Total	251	161	412
Marital status	Unmarried	79 (32.0)	71 (44.4)	150 (36.9)	6.406 (0.011)^∗
	Married	168 (68.0)	89 (55.6)	257 (63.1)
	Total	247	160	407
Educational status	No formal education	40 (16.1)	28 (17.5)	68 (16.6)	6.035 (0.197)
	Primary	51 (20.5)	26 (16.3)	77 (18.8)
	Junior secondary	112 (45.0)	82 (51.3)	194 (47.4)
	Senior secondary	28 (11.2)	20 (12.5)	48 (11.7)
	Post-secondary	18 (7.2)	4 (2.5)	22 (5.4)
	Total	249	160	409
Occupation	Unemployed	19 (7.8)	6 (3.8)	25 (6.2)	7.320 (0.120)
	Formal employment	40 (16.4)	26 (16.5)	66 (16.4)
	Skilled worker	62 (25.4)	31 (19.6)	93 (23.1)
	Trader	101(41.4)	71 (44.9)	172 (42.8)
	Agro-worker	22 (9.0)	24 (15.2)	46 (11.4)
	Total	244	158	402

^∗Significant difference within the categories. ^#The total number of women who completed the questionnaire was 415.