TABLE 3.

Overall political participation.

Variable	Cameroon		Senegal
	n	%	n	%
Recently voted	2198	52.31	2746	58.27
Key documents†
Has a birth certificate	3544	84.98	4024	95.93
Has an identification card	3613	85.45	3747	82.77
Is registered to vote	2379	55.81	3047	66.31
Has a valid voting card	2193	51.41	3211	69.37
Has all four key documents	1729	40.62	3158	68.19
Political engagement
Interest in politics‡	2648	63.14	1837	41.39
If yes, main source of information
Television	1285	48.47	622	33.73
Friends and family	541	20.24	360	19.61
Radio	358	13.30	287	15.30
Internet	384	15.04	225	12.83
Other§	80	2.96	343	18.53
Political party membership
Member of a political party†	861	20.25	518	11.16

^†, The following variables are all binary, taking the values Yes or No, we have tabulated here the Yes category;

^‡, Interest in politics relate to: watches or listens or discusses;

^§, Other relate to: Community or religious leaders or organisation of persons with disabilities (OPD) or non-governmental organisation(NGO)/local council or newspapers, etc. This category was created by collapsing categories with a proportion of respondents < 10%.