This lower socioeconomic status tend to be closely related toother factors such as crowded living conditions and poor nutrition status that are also conducive to increased susceptibility and transmission of tubercle bacilli should a case occur.
The range of education levels in TTS district was quite wide with more than 80% having had only elementary education while respondents with tertiary education comprised less than 1%. In Bandung the distribution was more even with 60%, 35% and 5% of the respondents having elementary, secondary and tertiary education respectively. The distribution of occupation also shows the differences between the two districts. In TTS the key occupation was farming while in Bandung it was mainly blue collar workers. Respondents with no paid occupation in TTS and Bandung were mostly females.