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Table 2 Participants’ demographic characteristics and clusters

From: HIV prevention: mapping Mozambican people’s views on the acceptability of the widow’s sexual cleansing ritual called pita-kufa

Characteristics

Clusters

Total

Total unacceptability

Conditional acceptability

Unconditional acceptability

Age: X2(4) = 10.63, p = .031

 18–30 years

79 (50)

58 (37)

20 (13)

157 (100)

 31–47 years

70 (63)

22 (20)

19 (17)

111 (100)

 48–66 years

48 (52)

25 (27)

18 (21)

91 (100)

Gender: X2(2) = 14.35, p = .000

 Male

83 (49)

47 (28)

40 (23)

170 (100)

 Female

114 (60)

58 (31)

17 (9)

189 (100)

Education: X2(2) = 12.50, p = .001

 Primary and secondary

98 (48)

63 (31)

43 (21)

204 (100)

 Post-secondary and university degree

99 (64)

42 (27)

14 (9)

155 (100)

Living areas: X2(2) = 11.0, p = .004

 Urban areas

108 (54)

69 (35)

22 (11)

199 (100)

 Rural areas

89 (56)

36 (43)

35 (22)

160 (100)

Total

197 (55)

105 (29)

57 (16)

359 (100)

  1. Figures in parentheses are percentages calculated for each row. Significance level = p <.05