Research Article
Prevalence of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Utilization and Its Associated Factors among Bahirdar University Students
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of the university students, BDU, April 2012.
| Characteristics | Frequency () | Percent (%) |
| Sex | | | Male | 615 | 79.7 | Female | 157 | 20.3 | Age | | | 15–19 | 60 | 7.8 | 20–24 | 695 | 90 | 25 | 17 | 2.2 | Religion | | | Christian | 727 | 94.2 | Muslim | 45 | 5.8 | Marital status | | | Not married | 712 | 92.2 | Married | 60 | 7.8 | Having boy/girlfriend | | | Yes | 245 | 31.7 | No | 527 | 68.3 | Ethnicity | | | Amhara | 611 | 79.1 | Oromo | 85 | 11.0 | Tigre | 29 | 3.8 | Others | 47 | 7 | College | | | Engineering | 305 | 39.5 | Natural science | 128 | 16.6 | Medicine and H/sci. | 29 | 3.8 | Agriculture | 45 | 5.8 | Business and eco. | 107 | 13.9 | Social science | 158 | 20.5 | Year of study | | | First year | 199 | 25.8 | Second year | 240 | 31.1 | Third year | 275 | 35.6 | Fourth year | 37 | 4.8 | Fifth year | 21 | 2.7 | Place of origin | | | Urban | 459 | 59.5 | Rural | 313 | 40.5 |
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