Table 1.
Socio-demographic profile and contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women (15–24 years)
| Variables | Study Sample | Contraceptive use | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | % | 95% CI | ||
| Age (years) | |||||
| 15 to 19 | 424 | 30.0 | 53.7 | 46.4–60.9 | 0.117 |
| 20 to 24 | 977 | 70.0 | 60.6 | 55.2–65.8 | |
| Race groups | |||||
| Black African | 1023 | 86.4 | 60.2 | 55.2–64.9 | 0.038 |
| Others | 376 | 13.6 | 48.3 | 38.3–58.4 | |
| Marital status | |||||
| Not Married | 1277 | 91.0 | 57.9 | 53.5–62.2 | 0.434 |
| Married | 112 | 9.0 | 64.9 | 46.8–79.6 | |
| Education level | |||||
| No education/Primary | 724 | 54.6 | 62.2 | 56.2–67.8 | 0.245 |
| Secondary | 479 | 39.4 | 54.1 | 46.8–61.3 | |
| Tertiary | 63 | 6.0 | 60.0 | 39.8–77.2 | |
| Employment status | |||||
| Unemployed | 1088 | 81.9 | 58.8 | 54.1–63.4 | 0.988 |
| Employed | 248 | 18.1 | 58.7 | 47.0–69.6 | |
| Asset based SES | |||||
| Low SES | 571 | 46.6 | 66.7 | 60.1–72.7 | 0.001 |
| Middle SES | 551 | 33.1 | 57.1 | 50.4–63.5 | |
| High SES | 253 | 11.9 | 39.2 | 28.8–50.5 | |
| Locality type | |||||
| Urban formal | 685 | 48.1 | 54.7 | 47.9–61.2 | 0.124 |
| urban informal | 217 | 8.8 | 63.5 | 53.3–72.6 | |
| rural informal | 389 | 39.3 | 63.2 | 55.8–70.0 | |
| rural formal | 110 | 3.8 | 48.0 | 31.0–65.5 | |
*Not all sub-total add to the overall totals due to non-response and missing data, SES socio-economic status, CI confidence intervals