Research Article
Insomnia among Town Residents in Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
Table 1
Distribution of respondents by their sociodemographic characteristics (n=840), Dessie town, North East Ethiopia, 2016.
| Variables | (N=840) | % |
| Age | | | 18-27 | 379 | 45.1 | 28-37 | 184 | 21.9 | 38-47 | 98 | 11.7 | 48 and above | 179 | 21.3 |
| Sex | | | Male | 337 | 40.1 | Female | 503 | 59.9 |
| Religion | | | Orthodox | 469 | 55.8 | Muslim | 329 | 39.2 | Others | 42 | 5 |
| Marital status | | | Married | 325 | 38.7 | Single (unmarried) | 323 | 38.5 | Divorced | 157 | 18.6 | widowed | 35 | 4.2 |
| Ethnicity | | | Amhara | 828 | 98.6 | Others | 12 | 1.4 |
| Educational Status | | | Not educated | 130 | 15.5 | Primary | 174 | 20.7 | Secondary | 295 | 35.1 | Diploma and above | 241 | 28.7 |
| Occupation | | | Employed | 115 | 13.7 | Private business | 172 | 20.5 | Student | 171 | 20.4 | Daily labourer | 90 | 10.7 | Housewife and jobless | 292 | 34.8 |
| Income | | | <750 ETB | 381 | 45.4 | 750-1250 ETB | 156 | 18.6 | >1250 ETB | 303 | 36.0 |
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N.B: others are Afar, Tigre, and Oromo. Other religions are protestant and catholic. |