Table 1.
Sample Characteristics
| Survey Wave | Significance | |||||
| 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2000 vs. 2002 | 2002 vs. 2003 | 2000 vs. 2003 | |
| Age | *** | ** | ||||
| 15–19 | 57.3 | 61.1 | 60.3 | |||
| 20–24 | 42.7 | 38.9 | 39.7 | |||
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 54.0 | 54.2 | 55.0 | |||
| Female | 46.0 | 45.8 | 45.0 | |||
| Education | *** | *** | ||||
| Secondary + | 90.1 | 84.7 | 91.4 | |||
| < Secondary | 9.9 | 15.3 | 8.6 | |||
| Student | *** | *** | *** | |||
| No | 33.6 | 42.7 | 27.8 | |||
| Yes | 66.4 | 57.3 | 72.2 | |||
| Socioeconomic Status | *** | *** | *** | |||
| Low | 27.6 | 31.6 | 28.7 | |||
| Medium | 38.1 | 42.5 | 45.3 | |||
| High | 34.3 | 25.9 | 26.1 | |||
| City | ||||||
| Yaoundé | 50.9 | 48.9 | 49.3 | |||
| Douala | 49.1 | 51.1 | 50.7 | |||
| Number of Sexual Partners | *** | *** | ||||
| None | 42.2 | 37.8 | 41.6 | |||
| One | 31.6 | 31.7 | 33.4 | |||
| Two or More | 26.3 | 30.5 | 25.0 | |||
| Number of Regular Partners | *** | *** | ||||
| None | 47.8 | 41.9 | 45.9 | |||
| One | 36.4 | 36.1 | 37.8 | |||
| Two or More | 15.8 | 22.0 | 16.2 | |||
| Number of Casual Partners | ||||||
| None | 81.6 | 82.4 | 83.1 | |||
| One | 8.1 | 7.4 | 7.7 | |||
| Two or More | 10.3 | 10.4 | 9.3 | |||
| Number of Cases | 1,956 (100%) | 3,237 (100%) | 3,370 (100%) | |||
*** p < .01; ** p < .05.