Research Article
Early Sexual Debut among Ghanaian Women: Correlates and Psychological Effect
Table 1
Socioeconomic factors of the respondents.
| | Frequency | Percentage |
| Age group | 15-24 years | 5836 | 40.6% | 25-34 years | 3837 | 26.7% | 35 years and above | 4701 | 32.7% | Ever attended school | Yes | 11283 | 78.5% | No | 3091 | 21.5% | Area | Urban | 7134 | 48.8% | Rural | 7475 | 51.2% | Marital status | Married | 6246 | 43.5% | Cohabitation | 1655 | 11.5% | Single | 6473 | 45.0% | Region | Western | 1350 | 9.2% | Central | 1319 | 9.0% | Greater Accra | 1830 | 12.5% | Volta | 1303 | 8.9% | Eastern | 1440 | 9.9% | Ashanti | 2022 | 13.8% | Brong Ahafo | 1323 | 9.1% | Northern | 1499 | 10.3% | Upper East | 1170 | 8.0% | Upper West | 1353 | 9.3% | Ethnicity | Akan | 5577 | 38.2% | GA/Dangme | 1142 | 7.8% | Ewe | 1758 | 12.0% | Guan | 513 | 3.5% | Gruma | 600 | 4.1% | Mole Dagbani | 3212 | 22.0% | Grusi | 598 | 4.1% | Mande | 73 | 0.5% | Other | 1131 | 7.7% | Health insurance | With insurance | 8152 | 56.7% | Without insurance | 6222 | 43.3% | Functional difficulties (age 18-49 years) | Has functional difficulty | 1125 | 9.0% | Has no functional difficulty | 11403 | 91.0% | Wealth index quintile | Poorest | 3383 | 23.5% | Second | 2412 | 16.8% | Middle | 2680 | 18.6% | Fourth | 2720 | 18.9% | Richest | 3179 | 22.1% |
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