Early Sexual Debut among Ghanaian Women: Correlates and Psychological Effect

Table 4

Chi-square association between socioeconomic factors and early sex debut.

		Early sexual debut			value
		NO	YES
Age group	15- 24 years	1230	2246	143.763	≤0.001
	25-34 years	1769	1813
	35 years and above	1937	2458
Ever attended school	Yes	4151	4606	281.032	≤0.001
	No	785	1911
Area	Urban	2888	2638	365.675	≤0.001
	Rural	2048	3879
Marital status	Married	2483	3318	30.666	≤0.001
	Cohabitation	613	1013
	Single	1840	2186
Region	Western	457	646	315.567	≤0.001
	Central	463	608
	Greater Accra	866	569
	Volta	399	722
	Eastern	497	691
	Ashanti	790	801
	Brong Ahafo	472	607
	Northern	358	713
	Upper East	299	522
	Upper West	335	638
Ethnicity	Akan	2115	2429	112.867	≤0.001
	Ga/Dangme	458	475
	Ewe	661	799
	Guan	133	282
	Gruma	144	324
	Mole Dagbani	898	1406
	Grusi	154	263
	Mande	20	34
	Other	351	504
Health insurance	Yes	3016	3538	53.266	≤0.001
	No	1920	2979
Functional difficulties (age 18-49 years)	Yes	402	597	9.316	0.002
	No	4534	5480
Wealth index quintile	Poorest	760	1819	676.189	≤0.001
	Second	688	1310
	Middle	874	1307
	Fourth	1055	1157
	Richest	1559	924