Prevalence and associated factors of gender based violence among Baso high school female students, 2020

Table 1 Socio demographic characteristics of female Baso high school students in Debre Berhan town, North Shewa Ethiopia, 2020, (N = 343)

Variables	Categories	Frequency (N)	Percentage (%)	Crude OR (95% CI)	P-value
Age	< 18 years	230	67.06	0.7 (0.5, 1.1)	0.143
Age	≥ 18 years	113	32.94	Ref.
Religion	Orthodox	315	91.84	1.8 (0.4, 7.3)	0.41
	Protestant	19	5.54	2.2 (0.4, 11.6)	0.34
	Other	9	2.62	Ref.
Residence	Rural	154	44.9	0.9 (0.6, 1.4)	0.706
Residence	Urban	189	55.1	Ref.
Living with	Family	268	78.13	1.2 (0.5, 2.6)	0.726
	Husband/boy friend	7	2.04	1.0 (0.2, 5.5)	0.979
	Female friend	12	3.5	1.4 (0.4, 5.4)	0.659
	Relatives	30	8.75	2.4 (0.8, 6.9)	0.118
	Alone	26	7.58	Ref.
Educational level	Grade 9	159	46.36	0.8 (0.4, 1.9)	0.612
	Grade 10	91	26.53	0.9 (0.4, 2.1)	0.747
	Grade11	68	19.82	0.8 (0.3, 1.9)	0.583
	Grade12	25	7.29	Ref.
Educational performance	Good and above	126	36.73	Ref.
	Average	178	51.90	10.1 (5.7, 17.7)	0.001
	Poor	39	11.37	6.8 (2.9, 14.2)	0.001
Married/Have boy friend	Yes	29	8.45	0.8 (0.4, 1.8)	0.613
Married/Have boy friend	No	314	91.55	Ref.
N = 29*****
Educational status of their husband/boy friend	No formal education	2	6.9	0.6 (0.1, 11.9)	0.718
	Grade 1–8	4	13.79	0.6 (0.1, 5.9)	0.635
	Grade 9–12	12	41.38	0.6 (0.1, 3)	0.511
	Certificate and above	11	37.93	Ref.
Monthly income status of husband/boyfriend	Yes	16	55.17	1.2 (0.3, 5)	0.837
Monthly income status of husband/boyfriend	No	13	44.83	Ref.

Bold indicates significant variables
NB: *, total number of respondents (frequency), N*****, total number of respondents who have husband/boy friend

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