Table 1 Characteristics of participants aged 60 and older of the COVID-19 PNAD, by living arrangements, July 2020
From: Coresidence increases the risk of testing positive for COVID-19 among older Brazilians
| Â | Total | Older adults alone (14.1%) | Older adults only (29.1%) | Multigenerational (14.5%) | Skipped generation (2.2%) | Adults and older adults only (40%) | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean household size | 2.7 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | < 0.0001 |
Mean age | 70.1 | 71.6 | 70.6 | 69.1 | 67.9 | 69.6 | < 0.0001 |
Female (%) | 55.9 | 68.9 | 52.1 | 55.3 | 62.1 | 54.0 | < 0.0001 |
Race (%) |  |  |  |  |  |  | < 0.0001 |
 White | 51.6 | 55.0 | 59.6 | 39.7 | 35.2 | 49.9 |  |
 Black | 8.2 | 8.0 | 6.1 | 11.3 | 8.8 | 8.5 |  |
 Brown | 38.7 | 35.7 | 32.7 | 47.7 | 54.6 | 40.0 |  |
 Indigenous | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 |  |
 Other | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.3 |  |
Education (%) |  |  |  |  |  |  | < 0.0001 |
 Without schooling | 13.1 | 11.9 | 10.3 | 18.7 | 17.8 | 13.2 |  |
 Less than HS | 56.1 | 54.6 | 56.0 | 58.4 | 64.8 | 55.4 |  |
 HS complete | 18.3 | 18.5 | 18.7 | 15.8 | 12.0 | 19.1 |  |
 College or more | 12.6 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 7.1 | 5.4 | 12.3 |  |
Household per capita income quartile (%) |  |  |  |  |  | < 0.0001 | |
 1 | 12.7 | 2.9 | 6.4 | 35.6 | 38.1 | 11.0 |  |
 2 | 19.4 | 3.3 | 11.6 | 33.6 | 36.1 | 24.7 |  |
 3 | 39.0 | 49.2 | 50.1 | 20.3 | 18.6 | 35.3 |  |
 4 | 28.9 | 44.6 | 32.0 | 10.5 | 7.2 | 29.0 |  |
Region (%) |  |  |  |  |  |  | < 0.0001 |
 North | 5.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 5.1 |  |
 Northeast | 24.1 | 19.9 | 19.2 | 31.8 | 36.1 | 25.6 |  |
 Southeast | 47.4 | 51.9 | 50.2 | 38.6 | 35.9 | 47.6 |  |
 South | 16.7 | 18.3 | 21.0 | 11.8 | 10.4 | 15.0 |  |
 Center West | 6.5 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 6.7 |  |
Urban (%) | 86.4 | 89.7 | 84.5 | 85.0 | 80.2 | 87.4 | < 0.0001 |
Health conditions (%) | |||||||
 Diabetes | 20.9 | 21.4 | 21.1 | 20.5 | 24.3 | 20.4 | 0.0461 |
 Hypertension | 46.1 | 50.0 | 45.3 | 45.9 | 47.2 | 45.3 | < 0.0001 |
 Heart disease | 11.0 | 12.8 | 11.5 | 9.5 | 9.3 | 10.6 | < 0.0001 |
 Asthma | 6.0 | 8.3 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.6 | < 0.0001 |
 Cancer | 3.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.7 | < 0.0001 |
 Depression | 5.5 | 9.2 | 5.3 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.9 | < 0.0001 |
Proxy respondents (%) | 57.7 | 20.4 | 56.5 | 74.3 | 48.9 | 66.2 | < 0.0001 |