Table 1. Characteristics of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years and their exposure to GBV.
| Background Characteristics | Unmarried | Married | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage | N | Percentage | N | |
| Depressive symptoms | ||||
| Low | 95.1 | 7,383 | 92.1 | 4,452 |
| High | 4.9 | 383 | 7.9 | 380 |
| Witnessed father ever beating mother | ||||
| No | 92.4 | 7,174 | -- | |
| Yes | 7.6 | 592 | ||
| Experienced physical violence by a parent | ||||
| No | 90.7 | 7,042 | -- | |
| Yes | 9.3 | 724 | ||
| Experienced Sexual Violence | ||||
| No | 97.6 | 7,582 | -- | |
| Yes | 2.4 | 184 | ||
| Experienced Emotional Violence | ||||
| No | 71.4 | 3,451 | ||
| Yes | 28.6 | 1,382 | ||
| Experienced Physical Violence | ||||
| No | 77.1 | 3,724 | ||
| Yes | 22.9 | 1,109 | ||
| Experienced Sexual Violence | ||||
| No | 73.9 | 3,572 | ||
| Yes | 26.1 | 1,261 | ||
| Justification over wife-beating | ||||
| Justified | 19.8 | 1,539 | 26.7 | 1,290 |
| Not justified | 80.2 | 6,227 | 73.3 | 3,543 |
| Experienced mobile phone/internet-based harassment | ||||
| No | 95.5 | 7,414 | 93 | 4,493 |
| Yes | 4.5 | 352 | 7.0 | 340 |
| Perpetrated bullying | ||||
| No | 85.1 | 6,610 | 97.2 | 4,697 |
| Yes | 14.9 | 1,156 | 2.8 | 136 |
| Age groups (in years) | ||||
| 15–17 | 71.9 | 5,580 | 26.6 | 1,285 |
| 18–19 | 28.2 | 2,186 | 73.4 | 3,547 |
| Education level (in years) | ||||
| No education | 7.6 | 593 | 27.3 | 1,318 |
| 1–7 | 18.8 | 1,459 | 23.5 | 1,135 |
| 8–9 | 33.3 | 2,585 | 25.0 | 1,210 |
| 10 & above | 40.3 | 3,130 | 24.2 | 1,170 |
| Place of residence | ||||
| Urban | 17.3 | 1,344 | 14.8 | 713 |
| Rural | 82.7 | 6,422 | 85.2 | 4,120 |
| Caste | ||||
| SC/ST | 22.1 | 1,715 | 28.6 | 1,384 |
| OBC | 57.2 | 4,444 | 60.7 | 2,935 |
| Others | 20.7 | 1,607 | 10.6 | 514 |
| Religion | ||||
| Hindu | 77.5 | 6,019 | 84.1 | 4,065 |
| Non-Hindu | 22.5 | 1,747 | 15.9 | 768 |
| Wealth quintile | ||||
| Poorest | 11.9 | 923 | 13.6 | 656 |
| Poorer | 17.1 | 1,327 | 19.6 | 947 |
| Middle | 20.9 | 1,626 | 23.4 | 1,133 |
| Richer | 25.2 | 1,955 | 25.5 | 1,233 |
| Richest | 24.9 | 1,934 | 17.9 | 865 |
| Mobile access | ||||
| No mobile | 12.1 | 941 | 4.9 | 235 |
| Own Mobile | 8.4 | 650 | 35.6 | 1,719 |
| Family member’s | 79.5 | 6,175 | 59.6 | 2,879 |
| Internet access | ||||
| No | 91.4 | 7,094 | 96.2 | 4,648 |
| Yes | 8.7 | 672 | 3.8 | 185 |
| Mass media exposure | ||||
| No | 38.4 | 2,984 | 52.4 | 2,534 |
| Yes | 61.6 | 4,782 | 47.6 | 2,298 |
| State | ||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 55.9 | 4,338 | 35.5 | 1,713 |
| Bihar | 44.1 | 3,428 | 64.6 | 3,120 |
| Total | 100.0 | 7,766 | 100.0 | 4,833 |
SC/ST: Scheduled caste/scheduled tribe; GBV: Gender-based violence; OBC: Other backward Class; Violence among married women come under intimate partner violence; depressive symptoms (low include scores from 0–9 and high include scores 10–27).