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Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of interviewees

From: Locked in grief: a qualitative study of grief among family members of missing persons in southern Sri Lanka

 

Number of individuals

1. Gender

 

 Male

6

 Female

18

2. Civil status

 

 Married

17

 Divorced

1

 Widowed

6

3. Relationship to the missing person

 

 Mother

13

 Father

4

 Wife

3

 Husband

1

 Brother

1

 Sister

2

 Son

0

 Daughter

0

4. Education

 

 No formal education

7

 Up to grade 5

8

 Up to O/L

4

 Up to A/L

3

 Degree

2

5. Occupation

 

 Unemployed

17

 Unskilled

1

 Skilled

2

 Professional

4

6. Ethnicity

 

 Sinhalese

21

 Muslim

3

7. Religion

 

 Buddhist

21

 Islam

3

8. Belief on the status of the missing person

 

 Firmly believed as dead

3

 Firmly believed as living

0

 Not sure

21