Tropical Medicine and Health

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the adult population in Urban Ethiopia (2017/18)

From: Universal HIV testing and the impact of late diagnosis on disease stage among adults in urban Ethiopia

	Male		Female		Total
Characteristic	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number
Region
Tigray	6.2	467	8.3	935	7.2	1402
Afar	1.3	355	1.3	497	1.3	852
Amhara	19.3	1334	18.4	1946	18.8	3280
Oromia	33.6	1871	33.5	2837	33.5	4708
Somali	1.2	367	1.3	590	1.3	957
Benishangul Gumuz	1.4	355	1.2	468	1.3	823
SNNPR	18.1	1289	14.1	1506	16.1	2795
Gambella	0.7	381	0.5	443	0.6	824
Harari	0.6	286	0.7	448	0.7	734
Addis Ababa	16.6	1030	19.4	1948	18	2978
Dire Dawa	1.1	277	1.4	540	1.2	817
Marital status
Never married	42.3	3552	29.5	3977	35.9	7529
Married	47.2	3585	45.8	5311	46.5	8896
Living together	5.7	416	4.9	579	5.3	995
Divorced or separated	4.2	356	12.9	1473	8.6	1829
Widowed	0.6	57	6.9	737	3.8	794
Education
No education	5.7	470	18.2	2068	11.9	2538
Primary	33	2634	37	4464	35	7098
Secondary	31.3	2536	26.3	3247	28.8	5783
More than secondary	30	2349	18.5	2333	24.3	4682
Wealth quintile
Lowest	17.1	1460	16	2057	16.5	3517
Second	19.1	1567	16.4	2059	17.7	3626
Middle	20.3	1648	19.1	2358	19.7	4006
Fourth	21.7	1698	22.1	2653	21.9	4351
Highest	21.9	1639	26.5	3030	24.2	4669
Employment status
Employed	58.7	4523	36.4	4155	47.5	8678
Not employed	41.3	3481	63.6	7984	52.5	11,465
Age
15–24	34.7	2910	34.9	5004	34.8	7914
15–49	90.3	7146	89.9	11,030	90.1	18,176
50–64	9.7	866	10.1	1128	9.9	1994
15–64	100	8012	100	12,158	100	20,170

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