Research Article
Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Factors in Dire Dawa City, Eastern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of adults in Dire Dawa city, 2017.
| Characteristics | Frequency | Percent |
| Sex | | | Male | 286 | 32.80 | Female | 586 | 67.20 |
| Age | | | 25-29 | 232 | 26.61 | 30-44 | 329 | 37.73 | 45-54 | 121 | 13.88 | 55-64 | 190 | 21.79 |
| Education | | | College and above | 101 | 13.99 | Secondary | 309 | 35.44 | Primary | 340 | 38.99 | No education | 122 | 13.99 |
| Marital status | | | Married | 582 | 66.74 | Single | 173 | 19.84 | Divorced | 72 | 8.26 | Widowed | 45 | 5.16 |
| Ethnicity | | | Oromo | 301 | 34.52 | Amhara | 413 | 47.36 | Other† | 158 | 18.12 |
| Occupation | | | Office work | 234 | 26.83 | Merchant | 135 | 15.48 | Unemployed | 394 | 45.18 | Other†† | 109 | 12.50 |
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Other†: including Somali (n=28), Harari (n=10), Gurage (n=55), Tigre (n=39), Wolayta (n=8), Silte (=15), and Afar (n=3). Other††: including housewife (n=36), pensioner (n=30), janitor (n=13), and daily laborer (n=30).
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