Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics among urban youth ages 15–24 from select cities from Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal - baseline data collection for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative/MLE (2010/2011)

Characteristic	Nigeria		Kenya		Senegal
	Female youth (n=4029)	Male youth (n=1680)	Female youth (n=2307)	Male youth (n=738)	Female youth (n=3403)	Male youth (n=792)
	Percent	Percent	Percent	Percent	Percent	Percent
Age:
15–17	28.8	33.1	12.5	11.6	28.2	25.4
18–19	20.2	22.2	16.2	19.7	20.7	20.2
20–24	51.0	44.7	71.2	68.6	51.1	54.5
Education:
None/quaranic	4.4	1.8	2.8	2.0	25.9	12.8
Primary	8.3	3.2	39.2	31.3	27.5	25.6
Secondary	69.6	78.6	44.2	42.0	40.9	52.7
Higher	17.6	16.4	13.8	24.7	5.8	8.9
Employment:
Not working	79.4	4.2	53.5	8.6	66.5	5.8
Student	na	65.2	na	32.2	na	49.5
Worked in the last 12 months	20.6	30.6	46.5	59.2	33.5	44.7
Marital status:
Never married	75.7	97.3	55.4	81.8	74.2	97.8
Ever married	24.3	2.7	44.6	18.2	25.8	2.2
Religion:
Protestant/other Christian	na	na	62.9	59.0	na	na
Catholic	na	na	22.7	23.1	na	na
Non-Muslim (Senegal and Nigeria)	45.6	44.5	na	na	10.5	8.3
Muslim	53.8	55.3	12.6	14.6	89.2	91.4
Other/none/missing	0.6	0.3	1.7	3.4	0.4	0.3
Wealth group:
Poorest	23.2	16.1	18.1	23.2	20.1	15.9
Poor	19.1	17.9	21.5	25.5	20.6	18.6
Middle	18.8	21.2	20.1	16.4	20.4	17.2
Rich	18.8	22.1	18.8	19.2	18.3	23.3
Richest	20.1	22.8	21.6	15.6	20.6	24.9
Duration of residence:
Recent movea	22.1	13.4	56.2	47.3	21.7	20.5
Moved within 2–5 years	31.6	17.5	28.2	28.8	25.6	20.6
Moved 6+ years ago	22.2	23.0	9.8	13.0	27.4	24.9
Always lived here	24.2	46.1	5.8	10.9	25.4	34.0
Cityb:
Abuja/Nairobi/Dakar	15.2	10.2	73.2	71.9	48.8	45.0
Ibadan/Mombasa/Pikine	22.2	23.2	20.6	20.6	12.7	13.0
Ilorin/Kisumu/Guédiawaye	23.1	24.4	6.2	7.5	12.1	14.9
Kaduna/na/Mbao	39.5	42.2	na	na	26.5	27.1
Type of residence:
Non-slum	na	na	78.5	75.4	50.0	51.5
Slum	na	na	21.5	24.6	50.0	48.6
Ever had sex : % Yes	43.8	27.8	72.2	79.2	31.8	34.7
Among all youth who ever had sex: First sex premarital?*	n=1754	n=464	n=1666	n=583	n=1083	n=271
No	35.5	3.5	25.6	3.8	63.8	4.3
Yes	64.5	96.5	74.4	96.2	36.2	95.8
Among all youth who ever had sex: Use of family planning at first sex?	n=1736	n=461	n=1662	n=582	n=1083	n=271
None	82.7	69.5	80.4	79.1	91.9	63.5
Traditional	0.9	0.9	2.2	0.8	0.1	3.7
Modern	16.4	30.6	17.4	20.1	8.0	32.8

na: not available (not asked); weighted sample sizes shown;

^aMoved within last year;

^bCities are country specific.

^*Includes small number of youth who ever had sex but age at first sex is missing – coded as marital first sex; weighted sample sizes shown.