Research Article
Transactional Sex and HIV Risk among Adolescent School Girls in Ethiopia: Mixed Method Study
Table 2
Socio-demographic characteristics of female preparatory students in Hawassa, South Ethiopia, 2011 (n=620).
| | Variables | Frequency (%) |
| | Age | | 15-19 | 545 (87.9) | | 20-24 | 75(12.1) | | Religion | | | Orthodox | 281(45.3) | | Protestant | 279(45.0) | | Muslim | 29(4.7) | | Catholic | 13(2.1) | | Others | 18(2.9) | | Student’s marital status | | Never- married | 612 (98.7) | | Married/Co-habitant | 7 (1.1) | | Divorced | 1 (0.2) | | Parents marital status | | | Married and in union | 488 (78.7) | | Divorced | 49(7.9) | | Widowed | 60(9.7) | | Mother and father died | 23 (3.7) | | Currently live with | | Husband/cohabitate | 8 (1.3) | | Within families | 567 (91.4) | | Alone/friends | 45 (7.3) | | Number of siblings | | Less than 2 siblings | 42 (6.8) | | 2-4 siblings | 383(61.8) | | Above 4 siblings | 195 (31.4) | | Birth order | | | Less than 1 birth order | 265 (42.7) | | 2-4 birth order | 179(28.9) | | Above 4 birth order | 176 (28.4) | | Perceived family’s economic status | | Poor | 81 (13.1) | | Middle | 439 (70.8) | | Rich | 100 (16.1) | | Family’s residence | | Hawassa | 475 (76.6) | | Outside Hawassa | 145 (23.4) |
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