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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Youth Stud. 2011 May 1;14(3):315–339. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2010.522562

Table 3.

Details of most recent coitus of adolescents who had had sexual intercourse by sex and educational group.

All Males Females

Total
(n=850)
Group
Oa
(n=193)
Group
V
(n=275)
Group
G
(n=93)
Total
(n=561)
Group
O
(n=89)
Group
V
(n=132)
Group
G
(n=68)
Total
(n=289)
Total
(standardized) ^

% % % % % % % % % %

Timing of most
recent intercourse +
 Within last two
days
32.5 33.7 29.8 21.5 29.8 51.7 35.6 23.5 37.7 39.1
 Within last week 24.4 24.4 23.3 29.0 24.6 20.2 28.0 20.6 23.9 24.1
 Within last month 17.1 13.0 20.4 14.0 16.8 12.4 16.7 26.5 17.6 16.8
 Within last 3
months
13.3 16.6 14.5 14.0 15.2 5.6 10.6 13.2 9.7 9.3
 Within last year 8.2 9.8 7.3 12.9 9.1 7.9 4.5 8.8 6.6 6.4
 More than a year
ago
4.6 2.6 4.7 8.6 4.6 2.2 4.5 7.4 4.5 4.2
Most recent sex
partner *
Boyfriend/girlfriend 85.9 80.3 81.8 79.6 80.9 94.4 96.2 95.6 95.5 95.5
 Other friend 3.8 5.7 5.1 3.2 5.0 1.1 0.8 2.9 1.4 1.3
 Acquaintance 6.7 7.3 9.9 12.9 9.5 2.2 0.8 1.5 1.4 1.4
 Stranger 2.2 4.7 2.2 2.2 3.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.7 0.7
 Sex worker 0.6 1.6 0.7 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Other 0.8 0.5 0.4 2.2 0.7 2.2 0.8 0.0 1.0 1.2
Sex of most recent
partner *#
 Male 38.3 3.6 8.7 28.0 10.2 96.6 89.4 94.1 92.7 92.7
 Female 61.7 96.4 91.3 72.0 89.8 3.4 10.6 5.9 7.3 7.3
Method used to
avoid
disease/pregnancy
at most recent
intercourse *#+
 Withdrawal 28.9 17.6 33.2 28.0 27.0 19.1 42.7 30.9 32.6 32.6
 Condom 41.2 53.4 41.2 52.7 47.3 34.8 18.3 42.6 29.2 28.0
 Oral pill 7.9 4.1 7.7 2.2 5.5 14.6 14.5 5.9 12.5 13.1
 Morning after pill 2.2 1.0 1.5 4.3 1.8 0.0 3.1 7.4 3.1 2.7
 Other 1.9 2.1 1.1 1.1 1.4 2.2 3.1 3.0 2.7 2.7
 No method 17.9 21.8 15.3 11.8 17.0 29.2 18.3 10.3 19.8 20.7
a

Group O=Out-of-school; Group V=Vocational school; Group G=General school/university

*

Chi-square statistic between males and females significant at 0.05 level.

#

Chi-square statistic between educational groups of males significant at 0.05 level.

+

Chi-square statistic between educational groups of females significant at 0.05 level.

^

Standardized to male distribution by educational group.