Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents by early sexual debut
Variables | Freq. (%) | Early sexual debut | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | |||
Freq. (%) | Freq. (%) | P-value | ||
Sex | ||||
Male | 2566 (51.1) | 2295 (89.4) | 271 (10.6) | 0.000 |
Female | 2458 (48.9) | 2066 (84.1) | 392 (15.9) | |
Age | ||||
8–10 | 1330 (26.5) | 1311 (98.6) | 19 (1.4) | 0.000 |
11–13 | 1497 (29.8) | 1453 (97.1) | 44 (2.9) | |
14–17 | 2197 (43.7) | 1597 (72.7) | 600 (27.3) | |
Education | ||||
No education | 27 (0.5) | 27 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.000* |
Primary | 2116 (42.1) | 2083 (98.4) | 33 (1.6) | |
JHS | 1584 (31.5) | 1441 (91.0) | 143 (9.0) | |
SHS/Voc./Tech./Com. | 1183 (23.5) | 756 (63.9) | 427 (36.1) | |
Tertiary | 114 (2.3) | 54 (47.4) | 60 (52.6) | |
Marital status | ||||
Married | 47 (0.9) | 17 (36.2) | 30 (63.8) | 0.000 |
Not married | 4977 (99.1) | 4344 (87.3) | 633 (12.7) | |
Religion | ||||
Christianity | 3771 (75.1) | 3303 (87.6) | 468 (12.4) | 0.000 |
Islam | 1083 (21.6) | 927 (85.6) | 156 (14.4) | |
Other | 170 (3.4) | 131 (77,1) | 39 (22.9) | |
Ecological zone | ||||
Coastal | 1806 (35.9) | 1497 (82.9) | 309 (17.1) | 0.000 |
Middle | 2043 (40.7) | 1806 (88.4) | 237 (11.6) | |
Northern | 1175 (23.4) | 1058 (90.0) | 117 (10.0) | |
Living arrangements | ||||
Both biological parents | 2883 (57.4) | 2600 (90.2) | 283 (9.8) | 0.000 |
Biological mother alone | 987 (19.6) | 837 (84.8) | 150 (15.2) | |
Biological father alone | 225 (4.5) | 181 (80.4) | 44 (19.6) | |
Other | 929 (18.5) | 743 (80.0) | 186 (20.0) | |
Access to the Internet | ||||
No | 4688 (93.3) | 4121 (87.9) | 567 (12.1) | 0.000 |
Yes | 336 (6.7) | 240 (71.4) | 96 (28.6) | |
Total | 5024 (100.0) | 4361 (86.8) | 663 (13.2) | |