Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of the study population by gender and level of street involvement (N = 200).

	Gender						Level of street involvement
	Male n = 119; n (%)	Female n = 81; n (%)			P-value		Part-time n = 57; n (%)		Full-time n = 143; n (%)			P-value
Sex
Male	-----	-----			Not applicable		18 (31.6)		101 (70.6)			<0.001
Female	-----	-----					39 (68.4)		42 (29.4)
Missing	0 (0%)	0 (0%)					0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Age group (years)
12–15	61 (51.3)	26 (32.1)			0.007		29 (50.9)		58 (40.6)			0.184
>15	58 (48.7)	55 (67.9)					28 (49.1)		85 (59.4)
Missing	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)					0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Has attended school
Yes	104 (87.4)	64 (79.0)			0.112		48 (84.2)		120 (83.9)			0.959
No	15 (12.6)	17 (21.0)					9 (15.8)		23 (16.1)
Missing	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)					0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Wants to return to school
Yes	87 (73.1)	47 (58.0)			0.019		41 (71.9)		93 (65.0)			0.201
No	31 (26.1)	29 (35.8)					13 (22.8)		47 (32.9)
Don't know	1 (0.8)	5 (6.2)					3 (5.3)		3 (2.1)
Missing	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)					0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Parent vital status
Single orphan	64 (53.8)	33 (40.7)			0.032		29 (50.9)		68 (47.6)			0.267
Double orphan	22 (18.5)	28 (34.6)					10 (17.5)		40 (28.0)
Both alive	33 (27.7)	20 (24.7)					18 (31.6)		35 (24.5)
Missing	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)					0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Persons lived with before coming to the street
Mother only	35 (29.7)	29 (35.8)			0.367		25 (44.6)		39 (27.3)			0.093
Father only	9 (7.6)	3 (3.7)					1 (1.8)		11 (7.7)
Both parents	29 (24.6)	17 (21.0)					14 (25.0)		32 (22.4)
Other relatives	30 (25.4)	25 (30.9)					12 (21.4)		43 (30.1)
Well-wishers	2 (1.7)	3 (3.7)					1 (1.8)		4 (2.8)
Father/stepmother, mother/stepfather	13 (10.9)	4 (4.9)					3 (5.3)		14 (9.8)
Missing	1 (0.8)	0 (0.0)					0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)