Table 1.

Characteristics of the Brazilian adolescents assessed by the National Survey of Health among ninth-grade students—PeNSE, 2012

Variables	Per cent
Gender
Female	52.2
Male	47.8
Age
13 years or less	22.9
14–15 years	63.9
16 years or more	13.2
Maternal education
Incomplete middle school	41.8
Complete middle school	18.0
Complete high school	29.1
Complete higher education	11.1
Geographic region
Less developed	33.2
More developed	66.8
Administrative status
Private	17.2
Public	83.8