Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of very young adolescent girl, caregiver, and grandmother survey respondents in intervention and comparison areas of Némataba Commune, Senegal, 2019
VYA girls (%) | Caregivers (%) | Grandmothers (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Int. | Comp. | Int. | Comp. | Int. | Comp. | |
Total (n) | 161 | 238 | 80 | 125 | 56 | 140 |
Mean age in years (SD) | 13.9 (1.4) | 13.9 (1.5) | 46.7 (12.6) | 43.6 (11.2) | 62.0 (13.3) | 60.0 (13.1) |
Sex | ||||||
Female | 100.0 | 100.0 | 53.8 | 52.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Male | – | – | 46.2 | 48.0 | – | – |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Pulaar | 97.0 | 97.5 | 92.5 | 92.0 | 98.2 | 94.2 |
Religion | ||||||
Muslim | 100.0 | 99.6 | 100.0 | 97.6 | 100.0 | 99.3 |
Marital status | ||||||
Married | 2.5 | 2.9 | 91.1 | 92.8 | 50.0 | 64.3 |
Engaged | 15.5 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Single/divorced | 82.0 | 84.5 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
Widowed | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 4.8 | 50.0 | 33.6 |
Educational attainment | ||||||
None | 3.1 | 4.2 | 75.0 | 78.4 | 87.5 | 91.1 |
Some/completed primary | 64.6 | 67.3 | 15.0 | 18.4 | 12.5 | 8.2 |
Some secondary or higher | 32.3 | 28.6 | 10.0 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
Socioeconomic tertiles | ||||||
Poorest | 36.0 | 34.1 | 35.0 | 40.0 | 39.3 | 36.4 |
Middle | 24.8 | 35.8 | 31.3 | 31.2 | 23.2 | 22.2 |
Wealthiest | 39.1 | 30.1 | 33.8 | 28.8 | 37.5 | 41.4 |