Table 2.
Use of sexual health services by gender and sexual experience
| Use category | All | Males | Females | |||||
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| Total (N=1745) |
Sexually inexperienced (n=341) |
Sexually experienced (n=565) |
Total (n=906) |
Sexually inexperienced (n=550) |
Sexually experienced (n=289) |
Total (n=839) |
Total (standardized)d |
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| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
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| Ever visited a sexual and reproductive health facility a, b, c |
11.7 | 4.5 | 19.3 | 13.7 | 1.9 | 24.5 | 9.6 | 16.0 |
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| If yes, | (n=204) | (n=15) | (n=109) | (n=124) | (n=10) | (n=70) | (n=80) | |
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| Reason for last visit a | ||||||||
| STD | 49.5 | 53.3 | 63.6 | 62.3 | 40.0 | 27.9 | 29.5 | 29.4 |
| Contraceptives | 19.0 | 20.0 | 12.1 | 13.1 | 30.0 | 27.9 | 28.2 | 28.2 |
| Pregnancy test | 7.5 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 10.3 | 10.4 |
| Pregnancy termination | 8.0 | 0.0 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 10.3 | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Maternal- child health | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 16.2 | 14.1 | 14.2 |
| Other | 10.0 | 26.7 | 8.4 | 10.7 | 30.0 | 5.9 | 9.0 | 8.8 |
| Type of health organization visited last time a, c |
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| Government | 43.8 | 40 | 42.1 | 41.8 | 0.0 | 52.9 | 46.2 | 46.5 |
| Private | 36.3 | 46.7 | 29.9 | 32.0 | 90.0 | 36.8 | 43.6 | 43.2 |
| NGO | 9.5 | 0.0 | 15.0 | 13.1 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| Other | 10.4 | 13.3 | 13.1 | 13.1 | 10.0 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 6.4 |
a
The Chi-square statistic between male and female groups is significant at the 0.05 level.
b
The Chi-square statistic between different educational groups of males is significant at the 0.05 level.
c
The Chi-square statistic between different educational groups of females is significant at the 0.05 level.
d
The final column for females is standardized to the distribution by educational group for males. The percentages shown represent the proportions that would have been observed if the females had the same distribution by educational group as the males.