Table 1.
Characteristics | Frequency | Percentage |
Age (years) | ||
15–40 | 675 | 81.3 |
>40 | 155 | 18.7 |
Sex | ||
Female | 491 | 59.2 |
Male | 339 | 40.8 |
Marital status | ||
Married | 428 | 51.6 |
Single | 249 | 30 |
Divorced | 131 | 15.8 |
Others* | 22 | 2.7 |
Ethnicity | ||
Amhara | 404 | 48.7 |
Tigray | 138 | 16.6 |
Gurage | 135 | 16.3 |
Oromo | 123 | 14.8 |
Others† | 30 | 3.6 |
Religion | ||
Orthodox | 502 | 60.5 |
Muslim | 195 | 23.5 |
Protestant | 94 | 11.3 |
Catholic | 39 | 4.7 |
Educational status | ||
Cannot read and write | 153 | 18.4 |
Primary school | 366 | 44.1 |
Secondary school | 185 | 22.3 |
Diploma and above | 126 | 15.2 |
Occupational status | ||
House wife | 131 | 15.8 |
Employed | 472 | 56.9 |
Student | 110 | 13.3 |
Jobless | 117 | 14 |
*Separated, widowed.
†Silte, Hadya.