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. 2016 Sep 22;11(9):e0163391. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163391

Table 1. Reported Characteristics of Participants, by History of Sexual Activity, Panama, 2015.

All participants History of Sexual Activity
No Yes p-value
  n % n % n %
 Gender 592   212   360 0.365
Female  356 60.1 122 57.5 221 61.4
Male  236  39.9 90 42.5 139 38.6
Age (in years) 592   211   360 <0.001!
14–15 84 14.2 39 33.6 36 10.0
16 133 22.5 71 24.6 59 16.4
17 144 24.4 49 23.2 87 24.2
18 230 38.9 39 18.5 178 49.4
School grade 591   212   359 <0.001!
10th 166 28.1 81 38.2 75 20.9
11th 159 26.9 69 32.6 84 23.4
12th 266 45.0 62 29.2 200 55.7
District of residence 592   212   360 0.481
Panama 475 80.2 173 81.6 285 79.2
Other 117 19.8 39 18.4 75 20.8
Religion 235   88   140 0.623
Catholic 118 50.2 47 53.4 67 47.9
Christian (non-Catholic) 85 36.2 29 33.0 55 39.3
Othera 32 13.6 12 13.6 18 12.9
Who do you live with? 573   207   349 0.009
2 parentsb 383 66.8 151 72.9 217 62.2
Otherc 190 33.2 56 27.1 132 37.8

χ2 was used to evaluate the association between a history of sexual activity and included variables.

!Kruskal-Wallis Test for trend was statistically significant at p<0.05

a“Other” refers to any other religion or “no religion”.

bTwo biological parents or one biological and one step-parent.

cOne parent, another family member, lives with romantic partner or alone.

Note: numbers differ in each category differ due to number of responses.