Almost 46% of respondents have a primary school degree.
Most of the women that got a Pap-test during the campaign period had a high school degree (45.1%) and only 8.9% had none or a primary school degree, while in the second group there were less high school degree (41.9%) and a little more women with none or primary school degree (12.7%).
Education was split into three groups: no education or a non-validated primary school degree; a validated primary degree up to a non-validated secondary degree; and a validated secondary degree or higher.
Only a small proportion of the cohort had a high level of education (validated secondary degree or higher (n = 378, 10.3 %)) with most having no education or a non-validated primary school degree (n = 1,283, 35.1 %) or a validated primary degree up to a non-validated secondary degree (n = 1,992, 54.5 %).
Conversely, a reverse gradient was reported in Italy, with greater vaccination rates in the group without a primary school degree (66.5%) than in the group with a high school degree or more (59.3%), although this difference was not significant in multivariate analysis [ 53].
A Educational level was categorized as follows: Low (no title), Medium-Low (primary school degree), Medium-Upper (intermediate degree), Upper (high school, bachelor or higher); B We categorized as severe the following chronic diseases: diabetes, cardiac disease, stroke, neoplasm, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, Alzheimer and other forms of dementia and cirrhosis.
Education_1 = primary school level.
Subjects in Class I were characterized by a higher educational status (primary school 16%, degree 10%) compared with Class II (16% and 9%, respectively) and Class III (21% and 5%, respectively; P < 0.0001).
The level of education was classified as primary school, middle level education and university degree in both data sets.
Age, sex, level of education using a 7 point scoring system (1: less than primary school, 7: university degree) [ 18] and estimated IQ were used for matching purposes.
Apart from this, response choices in Norway and Alaska ranged from primary school through PhD degree.
