Table 2 Percentage distribution of parenting adolescents and young women’s sociodemographic characteristics
Variables | Parenting adolescents | Parenting young women | Chi-square (p-value) |
|---|---|---|---|
Place of residence | 0.014 (0.907) | ||
Urban | 34.1 | 34.2 | |
Rural | 65.9 | 65.8 | |
Current marital status | 184.6 (0.000) | ||
Never married | 24.2 | 11.5 | |
Cohabiting or ever married | 75.8 | 88.5 | |
Total children ever born | 675.7 (0.000) | ||
One | 76.2 | 40.3 | |
Two or more | 23.8 | 59.7 | |
M (SD) | 1.26 (0.49) | 1.83 (0.85) | |
Occupation | 43.04 (0.000) | ||
Formal employment | 20.9 | 24.7 | |
Agricultural employment | 24.5 | 28.3 | |
Unskilled manual worker and other | 9.6 | 10.7 | |
Unemployed | 45.0 | 36.3 | |
Wealth index | 25.9 (0.000) | ||
Poorest | 20.8 | 16.4 | |
Poorer | 21.6 | 20.5 | |
Middle | 18.3 | 19.2 | |
Richer | 22.1 | 22.9 | |
Richest | 17.1 | 20.9 | |
Highest educational level | 43.4 (0.000) | ||
No education | 11.3 | 12.7 | |
Primary | 56.1 | 47.0 | |
Secondary or higher | 32.6 | 40.3 | |
Religion | 4.6 (0.031) | ||
Christianity | 67.8 | 70.5 | |
Non-Christians | 32.2 | 29.5 | |
Type of family | 122.9 (0.000) | ||
Monogamous | 60.0 | 70.8 | |
Polygynous | 5.6 | 7.7 | |
Not currently in a union | 34.4 | 21.5 | |
Total (N) | 1,485 | 10,287 |