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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2010 Apr;15(2):181–197. doi: 10.1080/13557851003615552

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics and selected risk behaviors of the HEALTHY Fiji sample and the retest reliability sub-sample

HEALTHY Fiji sample (N=523) Retest sub-sample (N=81)*

N % N %
Age
 15-16 339 64.8 54 66.7
 17-18 170 32.5 23 28.4
 19-20 14 2.7 4 4.9
Language of questionnaire
 English 147 28.11 21 25.9
 Fijian (local vernacular) 376 71.9 60 74.1
School location
 Peri-urban 262 50.1 35 43.2
 Rural 261 49.9 46 56.8
Sexual intercourse ever
 No 408 79.2 62 80.5
 Yes 107 20.8 15 19.5
Alcohol use, past 30 days
 None 417 79.9 70 87.5
 Any 105 20.1 10 12.5
Cigarette use, past 30 days
 None 430 82.4 61 75.3
 Any 92 17.6 20 24.7
*

Retest sub-sample is not statistically different from the HEALTHY Fiji sample for any listed characteristic, t-test at p<.05 level of significance.