Table 2.
Cellphone usage among young male and female participants of AYAZAZI
| Variables | Overall (n = 425) |
Young women (n = 253) |
Young men (n = 172) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you have your own cellphone? | ||||
| No (%) | 23 (5.4) | 9 (3.6) | 14 (8.1) | 0.04 |
| Yes (%) | 402 (94.6) | 244 (96.4) | 158 (91.9) | |
| What do you use the cellphone for? | ||||
| General communication (%) | 410 (97.2) | 248 (98.4) | 162 (95.3) | 0.06 |
| Mobile entertainment (%) | 388 (91.9) | 235 (93.3) | 153 (90.0) | 0.22 |
| Facebook (%) | 300 (71.1) | 184 (73.0) | 116 (68.2) | 0.29 |
| Twitter (%) | 79 (18.7) | 37 (14.7) | 42 (24.7) | 0.01 |
| WhatsApp (%) | 327 (77.5) | 200 (79.4) | 127 (74.7) | 0.26 |
| Instagram (%) | 58 (13.7) | 26 (10.3) | 32 (18.8) | 0.01 |
| Amount of time in a day spent actively using a cellphone | ||||
| < 8 Hours (%) | 296 (70.5) | 153 (60.7) | 143 (85.1) | <0.001 |
| ≥ 8 Hours (%) | 124 (29.5) | 99 (39.3) | 25 (14.9) | |
| How do you get airtime? | ||||
| Contract (%) | 10 (2.4) | 5 (2.0) | 5 (2.9) | 0.53 |
| Prepaid (%) | 412 (97.6) | 247 (98.0) | 165 (97.1) | |
| Who pays for the prepaid? | ||||
| Participant (%) | 292 (71.2) | 158 (64.0) | 134 (82.2) | <0.001 |
| Other (%) | 118 (28.8) | 89 (36.0) | 29 (17.8) | |
| Do you have access to the internet? | ||||
| No (%) | 45 (10.6) | 28 (11.1) | 17 (9.9) | 0.76 |
| Yes (%) | 380 (89.4) | 225 (88.9) | 155 (90.1) | |
| When you are on the internet what do you do or search for? | ||||
| Download music and videos (%) | 214 (50.7) | 93 (36.9) | 121 (71.2) | <0.001 |
| Research for school projects (%) | 247 (58.5) | 141 (56.0) | 106 (62.4) | 0.19 |
| Look up information about health (%) | 97 (23.0) | 51 (20.2) | 46 (27.1) | 0.10 |
| Search for information about sex (%) | 51 (12.1) | 21 (8.3) | 30 (17.7) | 0.004 |
| Apps (%) | 226 (53.6) | 157 (62.3) | 69 (40.6) | <0.001 |
P-values that are italicized are statistically significant at the 0.05 level.