Research Article
Reproductive Health Right Practice among Preparatory School Female Students of Assela Town, Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of preparatory school female students, Assela, Ethiopia, in 2015.
| Variable | Frequency | Percentage (%) |
| Age | | | 18 | 297 | 75.6 | 19 | 75 | 19.1 | ≥20 | 21 | 5.3 | Mean | | 18.3 ± 0.57 |
| Religion | | | Orthodox | 272 | 69.2 | Muslim | 77 | 19.6 | Protestant | 44 | 11.2 |
| Residence | | | Urban | 238 | 60.6 | Rural | 155 | 39.4 |
| Living with | | | Mother or father only | 67 | 17.0 | Mother and father | 170 | 43.3 | Friends | 29 | 7.4 | Alone | 61 | 15.5 | Relatives | 66 | 16.8 |
| Marital status | | | Single | 380 | 96.7 | Married | 13 | 3.3 |
| Father’s education | | | Illiterate | 38 | 9.7 | Elementary level | 147 | 37.4 | Secondary level | 87 | 22.1 | College/university | 121 | 30.8 |
| Mother’s education | | | Illiterate | 59 | 15.0 | Elementary | 203 | 51.7 | Secondary | 70 | 17.8 | College and above | 61 | 15.5 |
| Father’s occupation | | | Government-employed | 138 | 35.1 | Self-employed | 72 | 18.3 | Farmer | 149 | 37.9 | NGO | 25 | 6.4 | Other | 9 | 2.3 |
| Mother’s occupation | | | Government-employed | 69 | 17.6 | Self-employed | 101 | 25.7 | House wife | 201 | 51.1 | NGO | 20 | 5.1 | Other | 2 | 0.5 |
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