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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: List randomization for eliciting HIV status and sexual behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a randomized experiment using known true values for validation

 

Study sample

Target sample

 

All

Arm A

Arm B

Difference A vs. B

All

 

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

difference (p-value)

mean (SD)

Age

40 (16)

40 (17)

40 (15)

0 (0.83)

39 (15)

Male

0.36 (0.48)

0.34 (0.48)

0.38 (0.49)

− 0.04 (0.41)

0.46 (.50)

Education (years)

8.7 (4.0)

8.5 (4.2)

8.9 (3.8)

−0.4 (0.34)

8.9 (4.0)

Employed

0.28 (0.45)

0.27 (0.45)

0.29 (0.46)

−0.02 (0.63)

0.34 (0.47)

Tested HIV positivea

0.63 (0.48)

0.66 (0.48)

0.61 (0.49)

0.05 (0.26)

0.50 (0.50)

Tested HIV negativea

0.22 (0.41)

0.20 (0.40)

0.24 (0.43)

−0.04 (0.32)

0.25 (0.43)

HIV test refuseda

0.15 (0.35)

0.14 (0.35)

0.15 (0.36)

−0.01 (0.70)

0.25 (0.43)

Linked to HIV care

0.34 (0.47)

0.31 (0.46)

0.37 (0.48)

−0.06 (0.15)

0.25 (0.43)

n

483

262

221

 

8000

  1. SD = Standard Deviation. P-value for differences were estimated with a two-tailed t-test. aTesting HIV positive, negative, and refusing the test are mutually exclusive categories