Characteristics of study participants in urban Panama (URB) and rural Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé (CNB) regions, Panama, 2015–2018
| Demographics—all participants (n=3166)* | |||||||||
| URB (n=2466; 77.9%)* | CNB (n=700; 22.1%)* | P value between regions (both sexes) | |||||||
| Total | Females | Males | P value | Total | Females | Males | P value | ||
| n/N (%) | n/N (%) | n/N (%) | n/N (%) | n/N (%) | n/N (%) | ||||
| Region | 2466 | 1405/2466 (57.0) | 1061/2466 (43.0) | 700 | 316/700 (45.1) | 384/700 (54.9) | |||
| Age groups, years | 0.35 | <0.01 | <0.01 | ||||||
| 14–15 | 397/2463 (16.1) | 233/1404 (16.6) | 164/1059 (15.5) | 157/700 (22.4) | 88/316 (27.9) | 88/384 (18.0) | |||
| 16–17 | 1351/2463 (54.9) | 779/1404 (55.5) | 572/1059 (54.0) | 200/700 (31.7) | 113/316 (17.1) | 109/384 (28.4) | |||
| 18–19 | 715/2463 (29.0) | 392/1404 (27.9) | 323/1059 (30.4) | 321/700 (17.4) | 115/316 (18.7) | 206/384 (53.7) | |||
| Ethnicity | 0.97 | 0.19 | <0.01 | ||||||
| Latino/mixed Indigenous/African/ Asian descent | 2242/2336 (95.9) | 1279/1334 (95.9) | 961/1002 (95.9) | 34/686 (5.0) | 19/309 (6.2) | 15/377 (4.0) | |||
| Indigenous only | 96/2336 (4.1) | 55/1334 (4.1) | 41/1002 (4.1) | 652/686 (95.0) | 290/309 (93.9) | 362/377 (96.0) | |||
| Reported ever had sex | 0.37 | 0.14 | <0.01 | ||||||
| No | 1048/2466 (42.5) | 608/1405 (43.3) | 440/1061 (41.5) | 163/699 (23.3) | 82/316 (26.0) | 81/383 (21.2) | |||
| Yes | 1418/2466 (57.5) | 797/1405 (56.7) | 621/1061 (58.5) | 536/699 (76.7) | 234/316 (74.1) | 302/383 (78.8) | |||
Values in bold are significant at p<0.05.
*Denominators change in each category due to the total number of responses per question.