Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of the sample.
| Women (%) | Men (%) | |
| n = 7,728 | n = 2,191 | |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Arab | 76.0 | 74.5 |
| Poular | 16.6 | 17.7 |
| Soninke | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Wolof | 2.2 | 2.8 |
| Others | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| Marital status | ||
| Single never married | 28.6 | 48.8 |
| Married | 58.8 | 48.9 |
| Divorced and widowed | 12.6 | 2.3 |
| Place of residence | ||
| Urban | 46.0 | 56.2 |
| Rural | 54.0 | 43.9 |
| Wealth | ||
| Lowest | 35.1 | 28.1 |
| Second | 31.2 | 28.8 |
| Middle | 4.0 | 7.9 |
| Fourth | 16.4 | 20.9 |
| Highest | 13.3 | 14.3 |
| Education | ||
| No | 30.5 | 21.1 |
| Koranic | 27 | 19.2 |
| Prim. Education | 27.8 | 26.1 |
| Second. Education | 13.6 | 28.3 |
| High (University) | 1.1 | 5.3 |
| Age | ||
| 15–19 | 22.0 | 22.5 |
| 20–24 | 19.0 | 14.6 |
| 25–29 | 16.9 | 13.6 |
| 30–34 | 15.4 | 11.8 |
| 35–39 | 10.8 | 10.4 |
| 40–44 | 10.1 | 11.4 |
| 45–49 | 5.9 | 6.4 |
| 50–54 | – | 6.1 |
| 55–59 | – | 3.2 |
| Working Status | ||
| Not working | 70.6 | 33.5 |
| Working | 29.4 | 66.2 |