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. 2021 Feb 24;29(2):1885790. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2021.1885790

Table 2.

Characteristics of the respondents

  Father (n = 1122) Mother (n = 1119) Adolescent girl (n = 1100) Adolescent boy (n = 1093)
Mean (±SD) age (in years) 45.1 (±7.1) 36.6 (±5.3) 13.9 (±2.4) 14.1 (±2.8)
Marital status
 Married 0.6 0.7
 Unmarried 99.4 99.3
Education
 No education 33.6 25.0 0.3
 Primary and below 27.3 34.6 31.6 39.0
 Above primary up to SSC 27.8 36.2 63.0 57.0
 Higher secondary 5.2 2.1 5.2 3.0
 Above higher secondary 6.1 2.1 0.2 0.7
Occupation
 Wage worker 50.2 2.0 5.8 0.1
 Self employed 35.3 1.9 1.1
 Service 11.5 3.7 1.2 0.1
 Homemakers 0.4 90.4 0.2
 Student 0.3 0.6 90.4 98.7
 Others 2.4 1.4 1.6 1.0
Household socioeconomic features
 Monthly household income (in BDT), mean (±SD) 20,118.0 (±15,687.7)
 Access to mobile phone 96.4
 Access to smart phone 29.0

Note: Unless specified otherwise, % of respondents in each category is reported.