Association between exposure to social media and knowledge of sexual and reproductive health among adolescent girls: evidence from the UDAYA survey in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

Table 5 Percentage distribution of knowledge of sexual intercourse and pregnancy, contraceptive methods and HIV/AIDS by the key predictor and explanatory variables among adolescent girls aged 15–19 years, UDAYA (wave-2, 2018–19)

Variables	Knowledge of sexual intercourse and pregnancy			Knowledge of contraceptive methods			Knowledge of HIV/AIDS
Variables	Insufficient	Sufficient	p-value	Insufficient	Sufficient	p-value	Insufficient	Sufficient	p-value
Exposure to social media			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
Not exposed	92.5	7.5		90.3	9.7		96.2	3.8
Exposed	88.0	12.0		84.1	15.9		86.0	14.0
Age of respondents			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
15	93.6	6.4		92.6	7.4		95.4	4.6
16	93.1	6.9		92.9	7.1		94.6	5.4
17	91.1	8.9		88.5	11.5		93.5	6.5
18	89.4	10.6		85.7	14.3		91.4	8.6
19	88.0	12.0		80.6	19.4		91.2	8.8
Place of residence			0.430			< 0.001			< 0.001
Urban	91.2	8.8		86.3	13.7		86.5	13.5
Rural	91.3	8.7		89.0	11.0		94.6	5.4
Caste			0.003			< 0.001			< 0.001
SC	92.2	7.8		91.0	9.0		96.2	3.8
ST	93.4	6.6		80.2	19.8		97.3	2.7
OBC	91.1	8.9		88.5	11.5		93.5	6.5
General	90.7	9.3		86.3	13.7		89.6	10.4
Religion			0.213			0.088			< 0.001
Hindu	91.1	8.9		88.3	11.7		93.4	6.6
Muslim	92.2	7.8		90.0	10.1		93.6	6.5
Others	88.7	11.3		84.1	15.9		85.1	14.9
Education			0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
Illiterate	93.7	6.3		90.9	9.1		99.3	0.7
Primary	92.7	7.3		92.8	7.2		98.2	1.8
Secondary	90.8	9.2		89.2	10.8		94.8	5.2
Higher	90.7	9.3		83.0	17.0		82.4	17.7
Paid work in last year			0.001			0.057			0.019
No	90.7	9.3		88.3	11.7		93.7	6.3
Yes	93.1	6.9		89.6	10.4		92.3	7.7
Marital status			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
Unmarried	95.1	4.9		92.4	7.6		92.4	7.6
Married	86.8	13.2		84.0	16.0		94.5	5.5
Wealth quintile			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
Poorest	94.0	6.0		91.8	8.2		98.1	1.9
Poorer	91.6	8.4		89.9	10.1		96.2	3.8
Middle	92.2	7.8		88.7	11.3		94.6	5.4
Richer	89.8	10.2		87.3	12.7		90.8	9.2
Richest	87.7	12.3		84.0	16.1		84.9	15.1
States			< 0.001			< 0.001			0.389
Uttar Pradesh	93.5	6.5		89.4	10.6		92.6	7.4
Bihar	89.3	10.7		87.8	12.2		94.1	5.9

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