| Total sample (n = 4182) | Personally knows someone who died of AIDS (n = 1743) | Does not personally know someone who died of AIDS (n = 2439) | p Value | |
| Death of someone close to you | 27.8 | 32.6 | 24.3 | <0.001 |
| You having a serious illness or injury | 12.0 | 13.8 | 10.6 | 0.004 |
| Someone close to you having a serious illness, injury, physical attack or | 13.8 | 17.6 | 10.9 | <0.001 |
| Being a victim of a serious physical attack or assault | 6.1 | 7.6 | 5.1 | 0.018 |
| Being robbed or having home burgled | 11.5 | 13.1 | 10.3 | 0.046 |
| Separation due to marital difficulties | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 0.335 |
| Break up of a close relationship | 10.8 | 14.9 | 7.9 | <0.001 |
| Fired from job | 4.1 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 0.145 |
| Retiring when did not want to | 4.0 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 0.234 |
| Losing job for another reason | 6.9 | 8.2 | 6.0 | 0.052 |
| Unsuccessfully searching for a job | 15.0 | 18.8 | 12.2 | <0.001 |
| Major financial crisis | 35.4 | 40.1 | 32.0 | <0.001 |
| Problems with the police | 4.3 | 6.2 | 2.9 | <0.001 |
All cells are percentages (%).