Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of survey participants, Southwest Ethiopia May 2009.
| Characteristics | Number (%) |
| Residence | |
| Urban | 484(57.3) |
| Rural | 360(42.7) |
| Age of the women Mean(SD) | 30.6(7.76) |
| Age of the partner Mean(SD) | 38.4(10.9) |
| Education of the women | |
| Illiterate | 561(69.1) |
| Read and write | 95(11.7) |
| Primary | 114(14.0) |
| Secondary and above | 42(5.2) |
| Education of the partner | |
| No education | 328(51.4) |
| Read/write/no formal education | 137(21.5) |
| Formal education | 173(27.1) |
| Religion | |
| Muslim | 725(85.8) |
| Orthodox Christian | 84(9.9) |
| Protestant | 30(3.6) |
| Catholic | 6(0.7) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Oromo | 733(86.1) |
| Amhara | 34 (4.0) |
| Yem | 74 (8.7) |
| Others* | 10(1.2) |
| Occupation of the women | |
| House wife | 570(69.4) |
| Farmer | 124 (15.1) |
| Trader | 54 (6.6) |
| Laborer | 35(4.3) |
| Others♀ | 38(4.6) |
| Mean Monthly income | 14.35 |
| Age at first marriage Mean(SD) and Median | 17.8(3.6), 17.0 |
*
Somale, Guraghe,
♀
student, government employee.
(Exchange rate 1 USD = 13 Ethiopian Birr (ETB)).