Sociodemographic Determinants of Nonattendance in a Population-Based Mammography Screening Program in the City of Manisa, Turkey

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge levels about BC of women according to districts.

	Urban; ()	Slum; ()	P value*
Age (mean ± sd)	57.1 ± 5.9	59.0 ± 5.5	0.002**
Marital status	%	%
Single	1.3	0.5
Currently married	82.7	60.7	0.000
Widowed/separated	16.0	38.8
Working activity
Employed-retired	23.7	1.5	0.000
Housewife	76.3	98.5
Husband’s job^§
Unskilled blue collar	7.8	10.3
Skilled blue collar	22.5	23.0
Unskilled white collar	38.0	4.0
Skilled white collar	12.4	1.6	0.000
Self employed	11.6	12.7
Unemployed	7.8	48.4
Educational level
Illiterate-incomplete primary	14.5	93.2
Primary	50.6	6.8	0.000
Secondary/above	34.9	0.0
Place of birth
Eastern region	16.7	87.9	0.000
Western region	83.3	12.1
Perceived family income
Sufficient	84.6	37.9	0.000
Insufficient	15.4	62.1
Knowledge level about BC
Sufficient	76.9	32.0	0.000
Insufficient	23.1	68.0

^§ for urban, 126 for slum.
*Chi-square test.
**Student’s test.