Table 2.
Socio-demographic characteristics of ever or currently married women, Nigeria 2003*
| Measure/variable | Weighted sample (percentage) |
| Dependent variable | |
| Early sexual debut (15 years or less) | |
| Yes | 2755 (48.4) |
| No | 2937 (51.6) |
| Individual characteristics | |
| Age (completed years) | |
| 15 – 24 | 1523 (26.8) |
| 25 – 34 | 2106 (37.0) |
| 35+ | 2063 (36.2) |
| Education | |
| No education | 3044 (53.5) |
| Primary | 1266 (22.2) |
| Secondary or higher | 1381 (24.3) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Hausa/Fulani | 2387 (41.9) |
| Igbo | 582 (10.2) |
| Yoruba | 535 (9.4) |
| Others | 2168 (38.1) |
| Religion | |
| Christian | 2156 (37.9) |
| Islam | 3444 (60.5) |
| Others | 89 (1.6) |
| Community characteristics | |
| Type of residence | |
| Rural | 3907 (68.6) |
| Urban | 1785 (31.4) |
| Community ethnic diversity†, Mean (SE) | 3.7 (0.09) |
| Community median age of marriage, Mean (SE) | 16.2 (0.11) |
| Community median spousal age gap, Mean (SE) | 9.7 (0.08) |
| Geopolitical region | |
| North-central | 807 (14.2) |
| North-east | 1197 (21.2) |
| North-west | 1949 (34.2) |
| South-east | 396 (7.0) |
| South-south | 764 (13.4) |
| South-west | 579 (10.2) |
Abbreviation – SE – Standard Error
†Number of ethnic group in a community, represents the likelihood that two persons, chosen at random from the same area, belong to different ethnic group
*Data source – 2003 Nigerian Demographic and Survey. Sample size – 5531