Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of adolescent students in Legehida district, Northeast Ethiopia, 2018.
Variable | Category | Number | Percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Sex | Female | 200 | 49.3 |
Male | 206 | 50.7 | |
Age | 14–16 | 368 | 90.6 |
17–19 | 38 | 9.4 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 110 | 27.1 |
Muslim | 296 | 72.9 | |
Living condition | With father and mother | 220 | 54.2 |
Father only | 32 | 7.9 | |
Mother only | 38 | 9.4 | |
With others | 116 | 28.6 | |
Family residence | Rural | 324 | 79.8 |
Urban | 82 | 20.2 | |
Family socioeconomic status | Low | 131 | 32.2 |
Middle | 245 | 60.3 | |
Father education | Illiterate | 98 | 24.1 |
Literate | 308 | 75.9 | |
Mother education | Illiterate | 146 | 36.0 |
Literate | 260 | 64.0 | |
Grade level | 9th | 262 | 64.5 |
10th | 144 | 35.5 |