| Variable | category | frequency | percentage |
| Age in years | Above 70 | 113 | 38 |
| 60 -70 | 97 | 32.7 | |
| 50 - 60 | 55 | 18.5 | |
| 40 - 50 | 32 | 10.8 | |
| Gender | Male | 112 | 37.7 |
| Female | 185 | 62.3 | |
| Marital status | Single | 13 | 4,4 |
| married | 208 | 70 | |
| Separated, windowed and divorced | 76 | 25.6 | |
| Level of education | Informal education | 54 | 18.2 |
| Primary education | 142 | 47.8 | |
| Secondary education | 82 | 27.6 | |
| Tertiary education | 19 | 6.4 | |
| Source of income | Farming | 217 | 73.1 |
| Formal employment | 15 | 5.1 | |
| Informal employment | 61 | 20.5 | |
| Unemployed | 4 | 1.3 | |
| Smoking | Past smoker | 73 | 24.6 |
| Never smoked | 224 | 75.4 | |
| Chewing or taking oral tobacco | Took in the past | 5 | 1.7 |
| Never taken oral tobacco | 292 | 98.3 |