Table 2 Demographic characteristics and breast cancer screening, bivariate analysis of breast cancer screening among Tanzanian women
Demographic characteristics | Ever had breast cancer screening | Chi-Square | Degrees of freedom | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | ||||||
N | % | N | % | ||||
Age group (Years) | 39.86 | 5 | < 0.001 | ||||
20–24 | 16 | 0.4 | 749 | 17.8 | |||
25–29 | 33 | 0.8 | 854 | 20.3 | |||
30–34 | 39 | 0.9 | 720 | 17.1 | |||
35–39 | 46 | 1.1 | 692 | 16.4 | |||
40–44 | 37 | 0.9 | 521 | 12.4 | |||
45–49 | 47 | 1.1 | 462 | 11.0 | |||
Residence | 57.8 | 1 | < 0.001 | ||||
Urban | 120 | 2.8 | 1217 | 28.9 | |||
Rural | 98 | 2.3 | 2781 | 66.0 | |||
Region/Zone | 22.8 | 8 | 0.004 | ||||
Western | 8 | 0.2 | 320 | 7.6 | |||
Northern | 23 | 0.5 | 346 | 8.2 | |||
Central | 14 | 0.3 | 385 | 8.7 | |||
Southern Highlands | 25 | 0.6 | 312 | 7.4 | |||
Southern | 7 | 0.2 | 214 | 5.1 | |||
South West highlands | 23 | 0.5 | 500 | 11.9 | |||
Lake | 37 | 0.9 | 812 | 19.3 | |||
Eastern | 39 | 0.9 | 454 | 10.8 | |||
Zanzibar | 42 | 1.0 | 675 | 16.0 | |||
Education level | 61.5 | 3 | < 0.001 | ||||
No education | 18 | 0.4 | 838 | 19.9 | |||
Primary | 106 | 2.5 | 2144 | 50.9 | |||
Secondary | 83 | 2.0 | 977 | 23.2 | |||
Higher | 11 | 0.3 | 39 | 0.9 | |||
Marital status | 3.18 | 1 | 0.074 | ||||
Married | 176 | 4.2 | 3015 | 71.5 | |||
Living with partner | 42 | 1.0 | 983 | 23.3 | |||
Literacy | 17.39 | 2 | < 0.001 | ||||
Cannot read at all | 28 | 0.7 | 972 | 23.1 | |||
Able to read only parts of a sentence or no card with required language or blind/Visually impaired | 12 | 0.3 | 286 | 6.8 | |||
Able to read the whole sentence | 178 | 4.2 | 2740 | 65.0 | |||
Wealth index | 1.15 | 4 | < 0.001 | ||||
Poorest | 7 | 0.2 | 667 | 15.8 | |||
Poorer | 20 | 0.5 | 733 | 17.4 | |||
Middle | 35 | 0.8 | 830 | 19.7 | |||
Richer | 44 | 1.0 | 905 | 21.5 | |||
Richest | 112 | 2.7 | 863 | 20.5 | |||
Respondent’s occupation | 77.8 | 6 | < 0.001 | ||||
Not working | 49 | 1.2 | 1260 | 29.9 | |||
Professional/Technical/Managerial | 26 | 0.6 | 120 | 2.8 | |||
Clerical/Sales/Services | 32 | 0.8 | 346 | 0.3 | |||
Agricultural-employee | 26 | 0.6 | 932 | 22.1 | |||
Skilled manual | 28 | 0.7 | 440 | 10.4 | |||
Unskilled manual | 38 | 0.9 | 683 | 16.2 | |||
Other | 19 | 0.5 | 217 | 5.1 | |||
Covered by health insurance | 68.3 | 1 | < 0.001 | ||||
Yes | 179 | 4.2 | 192 | 4.6 | |||
No | 39 | 0.9 | 3806 | 90.3 | |||
Parity (Children ever born) | 8.19 | 3 | 0.042 | ||||
Nullipara | 8 | 0.2 | 195 | 4.6 | |||
Low parity (1–3) | 109 | 2.6 | 1938 | 46.0 | |||
Moderate parity (4–7) | 93 | 2.2 | 1518 | 36.0 | |||
High parity (> 8) | 8 | 0.2 | 349 | 8.3 | |||