Table 3.
Descriptive characteristics of study sample, out-of-school 15- to 24-year-old women in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, 2016–2017
| Kenya | Malawi | Zambia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 1014 | N = 1653 | N = 846 | ||||
| Average age (SD) | 20.6 (2.4) | 20.7 (2.3) | 20.5 (2.3) | |||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Household characteristics | ||||||
| Orphanhood | ||||||
| Lost both mother and father | 230 | 22.7 | 130 | 7.9 | 108 | 12.8 |
| Lost mother | 285 | 28.1 | 328 | 19.8 | 227 | 26.8 |
| Lost father | 90 | 8.9 | 118 | 7.1 | 73 | 8.6 |
| Not orphan | 409 | 40.3 | 1077 | 65.2 | 438 | 51.8 |
| Household socioeconomic status | ||||||
| Low | 368 | 36.3 | 664 | 40.2 | 308 | 36.4 |
| Medium | 339 | 33.4 | 551 | 33.3 | 363 | 42.9 |
| High | 307 | 30.3 | 438 | 26.5 | 175 | 20.7 |
| Hunger in the past month | ||||||
| Often/Sometimes | 245 | 24.2 | 368 | 22.3 | 111 | 13.1 |
| Rarely/never | 769 | 75.8 | 1285 | 77.7 | 735 | 86.9 |
| Adult supervision | ||||||
| No | 302 | 29.8 | 243 | 24.3 | 324 | 38.3 |
| Yes | 712 | 70.2 | 1252 | 75.7 | 522 | 61.7 |
| Respondent characteristics | ||||||
| Mobility | ||||||
| Weekly/monthly | 125 | 12.3 | 288 | 17.4 | 244 | 28.8 |
| Yearly | 555 | 54.7 | 18 | 1.1 | 321 | 37.9 |
| No mobility | 334 | 32.9 | 1347 | 81.5 | 281 | 33.2 |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Currently married | 511 | 50.4 | 1049 | 63.5 | 159 | 18.8 |
| Formerly married | 54 | 5.3 | 263 | 15.9 | 50 | 5.9 |
| Never married | 449 | 44.3 | 341 | 20.6 | 637 | 75.3 |
| Respondent attitudes | ||||||
| Support for gender equitable norms | ||||||
| Low | 386 | 38.1 | 550 | 33.3 | 333 | 39.4 |
| Moderate | 329 | 32.4 | 551 | 33.3 | 285 | 33.7 |
| High | 299 | 29.5 | 552 | 33.4 | 228 | 27.0 |
| Perception on exposure to HIV | ||||||
| Somewhat likely/don’t know/high risk | 210 | 20.7 | 782 | 47.3 | 127 | 15.0 |
| No risk/unlikely | 804 | 79.3 | 871 | 52.7 | 719 | 85.0 |
| Respondent knowledge | ||||||
| Comprehensive knowledge about HIV transmission | ||||||
| No | 444 | 43.8 | 861 | 52.1 | 423 | 50 |
| Yes | 570 | 56.2 | 792 | 47.9 | 423 | 50 |
| Comprehensive knowledge about condoms | ||||||
| No | 746 | 73.6 | 1190 | 72 | 413 | 48.8 |
| Yes | 268 | 26.4 | 463 | 28 | 433 | 51.2 |