Table 1.

Percentage distribution of adolescents (never married) by sexual activity status, according to gender and age and proportion of respondents ever married

	Male			Females
	Never married		Ever married	Never married		Ever married
Sexual activity status	12–14 years	15–19 years	12–19 years	12–14 years	15–19 years	12–19 years
Burkina Faso
Primary Abstainer	94.3	66.8	1.6	98.4	73.2	0.4
Secondary	2.1	9.4	35.9	0.4	6.0	11.5
Abstainer
Recent Abstainer	0.7	4.0	3.8	0.1	2.7	14.4
Sexually active	3.0	19.8	58.7	1.0	18.1	73.7
	N = 1288	N = 1598	N = 26	N = 1272	N = 1327	N = 437
Ghana
Primary Abstainer	98.7	85.4	6.0	98.3	77.0	1.2
Secondary	0.6	6.8	3.8	0.9	8.4	21.5
Abstainer
Recent Abstainer	0.1	2.2	16.9	0.2	4.4	20.8
Sexually active	0.6	5.5	73.3	0.6	10.2	56.5
	N = 977	N = 1224	N = 18	N = 952	N = 1111	N = 109
Malawi
Primary Abstainer	80.6	41.7	0.0	97.4	76.9	3.1
Secondary	11.0	29.4	29.4	1.1	10.9	13.9
Abstainer
Recent Abstainer	2.0	7.4	21.9	0.3	4.1	20.7
Sexually active	6.4	21.6	48.7	1.2	8.1	62.3
	N = 892	N = 1070	N = 45	N = 917	N = 849	N = 184
Uganda
Primary Abstainer	85.1	53.2	0.0	92.5	67.1	0.0
Secondary	9.3	21.8	20.1	5.0	14.9	8.1
Abstainer
Recent Abstainer	1.2	7.0	23.6	0.9	7.8	11.6
Sexually active	4.4	17.9	56.3	1.7	10.3	80.4
	N = 1198	N = 1238	N = 45	N = 1282	N = 998	N = 292

Note: Sample sizes are weighted