Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants and their parents in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia, 2021 (n = 220).

Variables	Category	Frequency	Percentage
Age	below12 years	75	34.09
	13–18 years	120	54.55
	Above 19 years	25	11.36
Sex	Male	172	78.18
	Female	48	21.82
Address before Streetism	Urban	119	54.1
	Rural	101	45.9
Religion	Muslim	197	89.55
	Orthodox	18	8.18
	Protestant	5	2.27
Ethnicity	Oromo	200	90.91
	Amhara	12	5.45
	Hadere	2	0.9
	*Others	6	2.73
Marital status	Never married/ not eligible	185	84.09
	Married	28	12.73
	Widowed	1	0.45
	Divorced	7	3.18
Fathers’ educational status	Illiterate	146	66.36
	Can read and write	27	12.27
	Primary and secondary grades completed	47	21.36
Mother’s means of livelihood	Informal daily laborer	63	28.64
	petty seller/trader	42	19.09
	skilled worker/self-employed	3	1.36
	house servant	29	13.18
	Beggar	12	5.45
	house wife	39	17.73
	**Others	32	14.55
Father’s means of income	Farmer	112	50.91
	Informal daily laborer	48	21.82
	Trader	8	3.64
	Government employee	4	1.82
	Private employee	5	2.27
	Beggar	5	2.27
	Soldier/x-soldier	7	3.18
	Guard	7	3.18
	***Other	24	10.91
Where parents live know (n = 201)	In Harar	62	30.85
	Another urban city	35	17.41
	Rural area	101	50.25
	Don’t know	3	1.49
The reason they leave their place of origin (if parents were migrants)	Drought/famine situation	27	27
	for medical treatment	16	16.00
	To look for a job	34	34
	Don’t know	23	23
Income level of parents	Less than 1000	163	74.09
	1000–2000	30	13.64
	Above 2000	27	12.27

* Others = Gurage, Sidamo, and Somalia

**Others = no work, prostitute, and don’t know

***Other = don’t know and no work.