Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of 12–14 year olds by sex and country, National Survey of Adolescents, 2004

Characteristic	Burkina Faso		Ghana		Malawi		Uganda
	Female (N=1272)	Male (N=1333)	Female (N=936)	Male (N=936)	Female (N=944)	Male (N=905)	Female (N=1282)	Male (N=1198)
Current age
12	37.3	34.2	29.2	28.7	34.7	38.0	33.1	31.0
13	32.4	35.8	38.5	37.6	34.6	30.3	33.4	34.2
14	30.3	30.0	32.4	33.8	30.6	31.6	33.5	34.8
Type of residence
Rural	79.9	82.8	53.1	57.3	78.3	77.8	91.0	91.9
Urban	20.1	17.2	46.9	42.7	21.7	22.2	9.0	8.1
Currently in school	*						*
No	70.0	58.3	11.9	9.9	8.6	7.3	6.9	4.3
Yes	30.0	41.7	88.1	90.1	91.4	92.7	93.1	95.7
Highest grade attained	*				*
None	63.1	49.6	8.8	7.0	3.7	4.2	2.6	2.2
1–3 years	9.6	13.7	21.2	26.5	39.0	48.0	33.0	37.2
4–5 years	17.9	24.1	34.9	34.6	34.1	31.6	46.7	44.8
6 years	7.0	9.3	18.3	17.3	11.9	8.4	11.6	9.8
7 years	1.6	3.1	12.2	9.2	7.7	5.3	4.2	3.9
8 or more years	0.7	0.2	4.5	5.3	3.6	2.5	1.9	2.1

Note: Sample sizes are unweighted, but percentages are weighted.

^*Chi-square p< 0.05, testing gender differences within countries.

“--” = Unweighted N is 24 cases or fewer. [ ] = Unweighted N is 25–49 cases.