Low levels of awareness and motivation towards cancer prevention amongst the general public in Sweden: a cross-sectional study focusing on the European Code Against Cancer

Table 3 Awareness of ECAC according to the weighted distribution of the demographic characteristics

	Heard about ECAC before taking part in this survey^a			Learned something new about cancer prevention^b			Agreeing with the ECAC recommendations^c
Variable	n	%	P-value	n	%	P-value	n	%	P-value
Gender			0.012			0.212			0.016
• Male	18	2.4		465	60.6		437	56.9
• Female	37	5.0		426	56.6		485	64.5
Age (years)			0.129			< 0.001			< 0.001
• 18–34	11	2.5		338	79.0		299	70.0
• 35–49	10	2.7		213	56.6		201	53.6
• 50–64	13	3.7		181	50.0		190	52.5
• 65–84	22	6.1		160	45.0		231	65.1
National background			0.199			0.042			0.365
• Swedish	40	3.3		693	57.0		728	59.9
• Other^d	16	5.3		198	65.2		193	63.7
College / University education			0.023			0.070			0.019
• Yes	32	5.3		367	61.8		385	58.0
• No	24	2.6		524	56.6		537	64.8
Income (SEK/month)			0.222			0.264			0.207
• < 20,000 / Other^e	24	4.9		287	58.6		314	64.1
• 20,000–39,999	17	2.8		335	56.0		361	60.5
• ≥ 40,000	15	3.5		270	62.3		247	56.9
Living alone			0.063			0.015			0.056
• Yes	8	2.2		196	52.0		209	55.4
• No	47	4.1		695	60.8		712	62.4
Health care region			0.774			0.137			0.915
• Stockholm-Gotland	10	2.6		194	52.0		223	59.8
• Mid-Sweden	14	4.5		194	61.8		182	57.7
• South East	5	3.5		83	55.9		94	63.0
• South	9	3.2		175	63.0		173	62.4
• West	12	4.2		159	58.0		171	62.4
• North	6	4.8		86	64.9		79	60.0

Notes: SEK, Swedish Krona. 10,000 SEK ≈ €885. Since frequencies and percentages are estimated based on post-stratification weights and then rounded, all numbers may not add up due to rounding errors. P-values are calculated using Pearson’s χ²-statistic with the Rao-Scott second-order correction. Significant P-values are given in bold. The overall weighted percentage of respondents answering “yes” (unweighted percentage of respondents answering “Don’t know”) was ^a 3.7% (1.2%), ^b 58.6% (2.6%), and ^c 60.6% (7.3%). ^d Including foreign and missing. ^e Including Don’t know and Does not want to disclose

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