Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of students in the seminar and school cohorts.

Characteristic	Seminar cohort		School cohort (Pre-intervention)		School cohort (Post-intervention)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Mean age in years (SD)	124	13.71 (1.71)	1337	13.01 (1.82)	1201	13.36 (1.64)
Fathers LOE
Nil	3	2.4	50	3.7	36	3.0
Primary	23	18.5	196	14.7	222	18.5
Secondary	46	37.1	628	47.0	667	55.5
Tertiary	52	41.9	446	33.3	276	23.0
Not indicated	–	–	18	1.3	–	–
Mothers LOE
Nil	0	0.0	72	5.4	9	0.8
Primary	29	23.4	208	15.6	285	23.7
Secondary	74	59.7	813	60.8	735	61.2
Tertiary	21	16.9	225	16.8	172	14.3
Not indicated	–	–	19	1.4	–	–
Type of school
Junior secondary	65	52.4	873	67.5	724	61.6
Senior secondary	59	47.6	420	32.5	452	38.4
Religion
Christian	122	98.4	1190	99.1	1214	90.8
Muslim	2	1.6	11	0.9	118	8.8
Not indicated	–	–	–	–	5	0.4

LOE-Level of education, SD-Standard deviation.