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Table 1 Distribution of demographic and social characteristics of study participants by village

From: The genetic study of three population microisolates in South Tyrol (MICROS): study design and epidemiological perspectives

Socio-demographic characteristics

All villages

Stelvio

Martello

Vallelunga

p*

  

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

 
 

Total

1175

100

509

44.2

351

29.4

315

26.4

 

Sex

Males

511

43.5

216

42.5

147

41.9

147

46.8

0.3639

 

Females

664

56.5

293

57.5

204

58.1

168

53.2

 

Age

Mean, sd

45.9

16.2

46.0

15.7

46.4

15.8

45.1

17.5

0.5907

Education

Elementary school

334

28.4

144

28.2

122

34.7

68

21.7

0.0003

 

Middle school

279

23.7

123

24.1

81

23

75

23.9

 
 

Vocational school

312

26.6

118

23.2

92

26.1

102

32.5

 
 

Secondary school

205

17.4

96

18.8

47

13.4

62

19.7

 
 

University

46

3.9

29

5.7

10

2.8

7

2.2

 

Occupation

Agriculture

132

11.3

96

18.8

54

15.4

12

3.9

< 0.0001

 

Working at home

196

16.7

92

18.2

59

16.9

49

15.6

 
 

Manual workers

163

13.9

55

10.8

55

15.7

46

14.5

 
 

Working in a shop

65

5.5

29

5.7

17

4.9

18

5.8

 
 

Tourism

228

19.4

76

15.0

53

15.1

78

24.9

 
 

Industry

40

3.4

10

1.9

11

3.1

14

4.4

 
 

Public employee

72

6.1

26

5.1

21

6.0

21

6.8

 
 

Teacher

72

6.1

28

5.4

12

3.4

26

8.3

 
 

Health care personnel

35

3.0

23

4.5

7

2.0

9

2.7

 
 

Other jobs

110

9.4

39

7.6

42

12.0

27

8.7

 
 

Not working

64

5.4

36

7.0

19

5.4

14

4.4

 

Smoking habits

Never smoker

634

54.0

280

55

188

53.6

166

52.7

0.1635

 

Past smoker

265

22.5

107

21.1

92

26.2

66

20.8

 
 

Current smoker

276

23.4

121

23.8

71

20.2

83

26.5

 

Alcohol consumption

Never to seldom

745

63.4

301

59.1

218

62.1

226

71.7

0.0001

 

1 to 4 days a week

244

20.8

132

25.9

62

17.7

50

15.9

 
 

Daily

186

15.9

76

15

71

20.2

39

12.4

 
  1. *P-value for the Chi Square test for association between subject's characteristics and village; as long as age was continuous, it was tested with an F-test