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Table 2 Chi-squared analysis of the relationship between demographic characteristics and prevalence of road traffic crashes (RTC) among university students in Kuwait, December 2016 (N = 1465)

From: A proportional odds model of risk behaviors associated with recurrent road traffic crashes among young adults in Kuwait

Characteristicd

Distribution of number of RTCsb

P-value

None

n = 895 (61.1%)

One

n = 342 (23.3%)

Two n = 160 (10.9%)

Three or more

n = 68 (4.6%)

Age (completed years)

    

0.413a

 17–20

339 (63.8)

107 (20.2)

60 (11.3)

25 (4.7)

 

 21–25

470 (58.8)

200 (25.0)

87 (10.9)

43 (5.4)

 

 26 and more

52 (61.9)

21 (25.0)

9 (10.7)

2 (2.4)

 

Gender

    

0.516

 Male

242 (58.6)

105 (25.4)

43 (10.4)

23 (5.6)

 

 Female

640 (61.7)

232 (22.3)

117 (11.3)

49 (4.7)

 

Nationality

 Kuwaiti

592 (60.9)

225 (23.1)

112 (11.5)

44 (4.5)

0.524

 Non-Kuwaiti

289 (60.7)

113 (23.7)

46 (9.7)

28 (5.9)

 

Governorate

    

0.127

 Capital

202 (58.1)

90 (25.9)

41 (11.8)

15 (4.3)

 

 Hawali

248 (63.9)

94 (24.2)

36 (9.3)

10 (2.6)

 

 Farwaniya

119 (59.2)

44 (21.9)

21 (10.5)

17b.5)

 

 Mubarak Al-Kabeer

98 (58.0)

43 (25.5)

20 (11.8)

8 (4.7)

 

 Ahmadi

97 (61.0)

28 (17.6)

21 (13.2)

13 (8.2)

 

 Jahra

119 (63.7)

38 (20.3)

21 (11.2)

9 (4.8)

 

Faculty/ Colleges of studiesc

    

0.981

 Science faculties

517 (60.3)

202 (23.6)

95 (11.1)

43 (5.0)

 

 Non-Science faculties

366 (61.4)

136 (22.8)

65 (10.9)

29 (4.9)

 
  1. aFisher Freeman-Halton exact test
  2. bCategory totals may not add up to total because of missing values
  3. cScience Faculties (Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Allied Health, Engineering and Petroleum, Sciences, Computer Science and Engineering, Life Science, Architecture); Non-Science Faculties (Business and Administration, Law, Literature, Education, Islamic Studies and Sharia’a, Social sciences
  4. dData on missing information on the variables have been provided on previous Table 1