Table 1.
Prevalence of socio-demographics among the sexually active and non-sexually initiated samples, by gender.
| Sexually Active | Non-Sexually Active | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys (n = 436) | Girls (n = 443) | Boys (n = 954) | Girls (n = 1627) | |
| Age | ||||
| 15 years | 138 a (31.7%) | 120 a (27.1%) | 392 b (41.1%) | 731 b (44.9%) |
| 16 years | 173 a (39.7%) | 172 a (38.8%) | 357 a (37.4%) | 618 a (38.0%) |
| 17 years | 125 a (28.7%) | 151 a (34.1%) | 205 b (21.5%) | 278 b (17.1%) |
| Social class | ||||
| High (1–2) | 168 a (49.9%) | 180 a (48.8%) | 468 a (55.0%) | 796 b (54.9%) |
| Mid (3–4) | 122 a (36.2%) | 138 a (37.4%) | 295 a (34.7%) | 517 a (35.7%) |
| Low (5–6) | 47 a (13.9%) | 51 a (13.8%) | 88 a (10.3%) | 137 b (9.4%) |
| Urban/rural status | ||||
| Urban | 206 a (48.6%) | 247 a (56.3%) | 354 b (37.3%) | 717 b (44.4%) |
| Rural | 218 a (51.4%) | 192 a (43.7%) | 594 b (62.7%) | 899 b (55.6%) |
| School type | ||||
| Single gender | 115 a (26.4%) | 207 a (46.7%) | 220 a (23.1%) | 878 b (54.0%) |
| Mixed gender | 321 a (73.6%) | 236 a (53.3%) | 734 a (76.9%) | 749 b (46.0%) |
Note: Each superscript letter denotes a subset of ever had sex categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.