Table 2. Percentage distribution of girls married or in union before the legal age of marriage by background characteristics.
| Background characteristics | % [95% CI] | Sample size | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| All | 6.96 [6.83, 7.08] | 157010 | |
| Spatial predictors | |||
| Place of residence | 0.000 | ||
| Urban | 5.79 [5.63, 5.95] | 82413 | |
| Rural | 8.25 [8.05, 8.44] | 74597 | |
| Demographic predictors | |||
| Age in years | 0.000 | ||
| 12 | 6.13 [5.85, 6.40] | 29122 | |
| 13 | 5.59 [5.31, 5.87] | 26211 | |
| 14 | 5.67 [5.39, 5.95] | 25972 | |
| 15 | 6.64 [6.35, 6.92] | 28904 | |
| 16 | 7.15 [6.83, 7.48] | 23944 | |
| 17 | 11.23 [10.82, 11.64] | 22857 | |
| Sex of head of household | 0.000 | ||
| Male | 7.95 [7.78, 8.12] | 96305 | |
| Female | 5.38 [5.20, 5.56] | 60705 | |
| Type of household | 0.000 | ||
| Married couple family, male head | 7.87 [7.69, 8.05] | 84036 | |
| Married couple family, female head | 9.27 [8.54, 10.00] | 6019 | |
| Non-married couple family, male head | 6.95 [6.49, 7.40] | 11821 | |
| Non-married couple family, female head | 4.89 [4.71, 5.08] | 53831 | |
| Non-family | 28.28 [25.4, 31.17] | 937 | |
| Female living alone | 7.92 [5.15, 10.69] | 366 | |
| Household size | 0.000 | ||
| 1–2 | 8.80 [8.06, 9.55] | 5600 | |
| 3–4 | 7.27 [6.97, 7.57] | 28545 | |
| 5–6 | 6.56 [6.33, 6.78] | 45228 | |
| 7–8 | 6.35 [6.09, 6.60] | 35301 | |
| 9+ | 7.43 [7.18, 7.68] | 42336 | |
| Economic predictors | |||
| Educational attainment | 0.000 | ||
| No formal education | 14.82 [14.23, 15.41] | 13941 | |
| Primary | 6.75 [6.55, 6.94] | 60680 | |
| Junior high | 5.87 [5.70, 6.05] | 68810 | |
| Senior high or higher | 5.31 [4.93, 5.69] | 13579 | |
| Economic activity | 0.000 | ||
| Employed | 11.14 [10.77, 11.51] | 27466 | |
| Unemployed | 21.34 [19.32, 23.36] | 1579 | |
| Not active | 5.88 [5.75, 6.01] | 127965 | |
| Agrarian and non- agrarian households | 0.000 | ||
| Agrarian household | 7.56 [7.39, 7.74] | 87950 | |
| Non- agrarian household | 6.18 [6.00, 6.36] | 69060 | |
| Household wealth status | 0.000 | ||
| Poorest | 9.03 [8.70, 9.37] | 28208 | |
| Poor | 7.97 [7.71, 8.23] | 42107 | |
| Middle | 6.83 [6.50, 7.17] | 21799 | |
| Rich | 5.94 [5.69, 6.20] | 32354 | |
| Richest | 4.94 [4.70, 5.17] | 32542 | |
| Socio-cultural predictors | |||
| Religious affiliation | 0.000 | ||
| No religion | 12.44 [11.48, 13.4] | 4510 | |
| Catholic | 6.10 [5.79, 6.41] | 22379 | |
| Protestants | 6.04 [5.77, 6.31] | 30815 | |
| Pentecostal/Charismatic | 6.23 [6.01, 6.45] | 47189 | |
| Other Christian | 6.75 [6.39, 7.11] | 18779 | |
| Moslem | 8.40 [8.07, 8.74] | 26344 | |
| Traditionalist | 10.68 [9.88, 11.47] | 5817 | |
| Other | 7.82 [6.28, 9.35] | 1177 | |
| Ethnicity | 0.000 | ||
| Akan | 6.14 [5.97, 6.32] | 74113 | |
| Ga-Dangme | 6.41 [5.95, 6.88] | 10666 | |
| Ewe | 7.57 [7.20, 7.93] | 20447 | |
| Guan | 6.73 [6.09, 7.38] | 5776 | |
| Gurma | 8.05 [7.49, 8.61] | 9054 | |
| Mole-Dagbani | 8.20 [7.86, 8.55] | 24250 | |
| Grusi | 7.83 [6.99, 8.67] | 3945 | |
| Mande | 6.01 [4.90, 7.12] | 1764 | |
| Other | |||
| Nationality | 0.003 | ||
| Ghanaian | 6.93 [6.80, 7.05] | 153861 | |
| Other Africans | 8.56 [7.50, 9.61] | 2688 | |
| Other nationals | 7.81 [5.36, 10.26] | 461 | |
| Disability | 0.419 | ||
| No disability | 6.95 [6.82, 7.07] | 154355 | |
| Single disability | 7.18 [6.07, 8.29] | 2075 | |
| Multiple disabilities | 8.28 [6.03, 10.52] | 580 |
CI–Confidence Interval; p-values from Chi-squared test