Health Status and Quality of Life in the Population near Zhezkazgan Copper Smelter, Kazakhstan

Table 3

General information about the surveyed residents of the villages of Talap (main group) and Malshybai (comparison group) with winter quarters in the Ulytau district of the Karaganda region.

		Main group (Talap village)	Comparison group (Malshybai village)
Sample		260	146
	Women, n (%)	141 (54.2)	67 (45.9)
	Men, n (%)	119 (45.8)	79 (54.1)
Age, n (%)	18–29	49 (18.8)	16 (11.0)
	30–39	29 (11.2)	17 (11.6)
	40–49	51 (19.6)	38 (26.0)
	50–59	60 (23.1)	39 (26.7)
	60 and above	71 (27.3)	36 (24.7)
Ethnic group	Kazakh	222 (85.4)	138 (94.5)
	Russian	31 (11.9)	6 (4.1)
	Other	7 (2.7)	2 (1.4)
Employment status, n (%)	Unemployed	13 (5.0)	17 (11.6)
	Housewife	7 (2.7)	13 (8.9)
	Pensioner	50 (19.2)	24 (16.4)
	Self-employed	10 (3.8)	20 (13.7)
	Governmental employee	53 (20.4)	16 (11.0)
	Student	4 (1.5)
	Employed and other types of work	123 (47.3)	56 (38.4)
Education, (%)	No education	1.2	3.5
	Primary	0.4	0.7
	General secondary education	28.5	58.7
	Special secondary	55.9	23.8
	Higher	14.1	13.3
Disability, n (%)		23 (8.8)	10 (6.8)
Smokers, n (%)		35 (13.5)	28 (19.2)