Lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted infections among women in North rural Vietnam

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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics and childbearing experience of 1805 women aged 15–49 years in North rural Vietnam

	Unmarried	Married	Total
	% (n = 445)	% (n = 1360)	% (N = 1805)
Age group (years)
15 – 19	61.6	0.6	15.6
20 – 29	31.5	24.1	25.9
30 – 39	3.8	35.4	27.6
40 – 49	3.1	39.9	30.9
Education
Illiterate	0.9	0.3	0.4
Primary school (< 6 years)	9.4	14.8	13.4
Secondary school (6–9 years)	29.2	65.5	56.6
High school (10–12 years)	49.0	12.9	21.8
College/university	11.5	6.5	7.8
Occupation
Farmer	27.6	78.6	66.0
Government staff	1.3	6.4	5.1
Worker/hire labour	11.7	5.0	6.6
Trader and others (housewife, unemployed...)	4.9	9.9	8.7
Student ^±	54.4	0.1	13.5
Economic status ^#
1^st quintile group	12.6	13.5	13.3
2^nd quintile group	21.1	18.8	19.4
3^rd quintile group^c	19.6	20.1	20.0
4^th quintile group	19.8	22.3	21.7
5^th quintile group	27.0	25.2	25.6
Place of residence
Lowland	42.0	45.1	44.3
Highland	31.0	29.6	30.0
Mountainous	27.0	25.3	25.7
Experience of childbirth	NA^¥	97.6	-
Had at least one induced abortion	NA^¥	37.4	-
Had at least one adverse pregnancy outcome ^§	NA^¥	20.5	-

^NA Not applicable, these questions were not asked because of the sensitiveness
^± Secondary school 18%, high school 69%, college/university 13%, under 21 years of age 92%
^# Based on household's wealth index performed as principal component from economic indicators (including incomes, expenditures and debt), housing and sanitary conditions, land area and household assets
^¥ Being unmarried but having experience of childbirth: 7, none of them reported having induced abortion or adverse pregnancy outcome
^§ Miscarriage 216, still birth 38, premature birth 27, and neonatal death 10

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