Access to assistive technology in two Southern African countries

Table 6 Bivariate correlations of AT access in Botswana and Swaziland

	Botswana			Swaziland
	N	Pearson’s	Sig. (2-tailed)	N	Pearson’s	Sig. (2-tailed)
Gender – Female	475	- 0.065	0.156	326	−0.015	0.785
Age	482	−0.050	0.276	326	0.109	0.050
Locality – Urban/City	481	0.081	0.076	326	0.058	0.295
Received a formal primary education	475	0.157	0.001	239	0.173	0.007
Employed or receiving grant	480	0.051	0.263	326	0.219	0.000
Possession scale	479	0.161	0.000	315	−0.067	0.234
Dietary diversity scale	468	0.079	0.090	316	−0.045	0.422
Access to information scale	429	0.092	0.058	313	−0.051	0.370
Activity limitations scale	466	−0.010	0.826	323	−0.090	0.108
Seeing	479	−0.192	0.000	324	0.030	0.590
Hearing	473	−0.151	0.001	324	−0.082	0.139
Walking/climbing steps	477	0.371	0.000	323	0.238	0.000
Remembering/concentrating	472	−0.156	0.001	324	−0.250	0.000
Self-care	477	0.046	0.313	324	−0.050	0.372
Communicating	473	−0.101	0.028	324	−0.159	0.004

Boldface signifies positive and negative correlations of factors that met the criterion (p < .20)

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