Table 2 Socioeconomic characteristics of the SLE patients and healthy controls
Variable | Group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SLE | CONTROLS | P-value | |||
N | % | N | % | ||
Educational level | |||||
Literacy, 0 to 4 years | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.0003 |
Primary, 5 to 8 years | 8 | 32 | 0 | 0 | |
Secondary, 9 to 12 years | 9 | 36 | 23 | 92 | |
University, 12 years > | 5 | 20 | 2 | 8 | |
Employment | |||||
Paid | 14 | 56 | 19 | 76 | 0.0702 |
Unemployed | 11 | 44 | 6 | 24 | |
Income† | |||||
No income | 10 | 40 | 6 | 24 | 0.5345 |
Up to 1 minimum salary | 6 | 24 | 8 | 32 | |
From 1 to 2 minimum salaries | 6 | 24 | 8 | 32 | |
Over 2 minimum salaries | 3 | 12 | 3 | 12 | |