Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Factors in Dire Dawa City, Eastern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of adults in Dire Dawa city, 2017.

Characteristics	Frequency	Percent
Sex
Male	286	32.80
Female	586	67.20
Age
25-29	232	26.61
30-44	329	37.73
45-54	121	13.88
55-64	190	21.79
Education
College and above	101	13.99
Secondary	309	35.44
Primary	340	38.99
No education	122	13.99
Marital status
Married	582	66.74
Single	173	19.84
Divorced	72	8.26
Widowed	45	5.16
Ethnicity
Oromo	301	34.52
Amhara	413	47.36
Other^†	158	18.12
Occupation
Office work	234	26.83
Merchant	135	15.48
Unemployed	394	45.18
Other^††	109	12.50

Other^†: including Somali (n=28), Harari (n=10), Gurage (n=55), Tigre (n=39), Wolayta (n=8), Silte (=15), and Afar (n=3).
Other^††: including housewife (n=36), pensioner (n=30), janitor (n=13), and daily laborer (n=30).