Monitoring vaccine and non-vaccine HPV type prevalence in the post-vaccination era in women living in the Basilicata region, Italy

Table 2 Comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated women (aged 18-30 years) by sociodemographic characteristics (N =1314)

	Unvaccinated		Vaccinated		P-value^a
	n = 539		n = 775
	n	%	n	%
Age at enrolment					<0.001
18-24 y	297	55.1	597	77.0
25-30 y	242	44.9	178	23.0
Country of birth					<0.001
Italy	455	84.4	759	97.9
Other	83	15.4	14	1.8
Unknown	1	0.2	2	0.3
Marital status					<0.001
Single	383	71.1	712	91.9
Married	138	25.6	54	7.0
Divorced/separated	10	1.9	4	0.5
Unknown	8	1.5	5	0.6
Educational level					<0.001
Secondary school or lower	135	25.0	110	14.2
High school diploma or higher	386	71.6	648	83.6
Other	15	2.8	13	1.7
Unknown	3	0.6	4	0.5
Occupational status					0.014
Employed	167	31.0	189	24.4
Not working^b	369	68.5	583	75.2
Other	1	0.2	0	0.0
Unknown	2	0.4	3	0.4

^aThe P-values were calculated excluding data from the “missing” category
^bIncludes those looking for a job, housewives, those at high school, university students, and the unemployed

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