Characteristics Category Number Percentage
Sex Male 125 68.3
Female 58 31.7
Payment Status Paying 15 8.19
Free 168 91.81
Marital Status Single 27 14.75
Married 140 76.5
Divorced 11 6.01
Widowed 5 2.73
Educational Level Illiterate 71 38.79
Some Primary School 31 16.93
Completed Primary 28 15.3
Some Secondary 23 12.56
Completed Secondary 14 7.65
More than Secondary 16 8.74
Table 1: Sociodemographic characteristics of JUSH surgical inpatients that had undergone surgery, April 2013.