Table 2.
Sample characteristics of Nairobi youth and young adults (April-May 2021); by gender, overall and by economic dependency status, weighted percentages
| Overall n=1,177 (100%) |
Economic dependency status+ |
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| Dependents n=385 (33%) |
Semi-dependents n=455 (39%) |
Independents n=337 (29%) |
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| Alln=1,177(100%) | Women n= 591 (50%) | Menn=586 (50%) | Alln=385(100%) | Womenn=217(56%) | Menn=168 (44%) | Alln=455 (100%) | Womenn=293 (64%) | Menn=162 (36%) | Alln=337 (100%) | Womenn=81 (24%) | Menn=256 (76%) | |
| Main activity | <0.01++ | 0.48++ | 0.25++ | 0.06++ | ||||||||
| Employed in formal economy | 5.0 | 3.8 | 6.7 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 8.1 | 6.5 | 3.3 | 7.7 |
| Working informal economy | 29.1 | 26.1 | 33.3 | 14.8 | 16.7 | 10.0 | 27.9 | 27.9 | 28.2 | 46.1 | 47.4 | 45.6 |
| Student | 29.1 | 31.4 | 25.9 | 57.3 | 53.5 | 67.3 | 20.8 | 19.0 | 25.3 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.9 |
| Caregiver | 4.8 | 6.2 | 2.9 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 7.3 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 2.8 |
| Self-employed | 16.1 | 13.2 | 20.1 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 20.5 | 19.5 | 23.1 | 21.7 | 11.9 | 25.4 |
| Other | 15.9 | 19.3 | 11.1 | 15.1 | 16.6 | 11.0 | 18.5 | 20.1 | 14.3 | 13.7 | 24.4 | 9.7 |
| Age | 0.59++ | 0.18++ | <0.01++ | 0.24++ | ||||||||
| 16-18 years | 15.3 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 36.8 | 32.7 | 47.5 | 8.3 | 6.0 | 14.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| 19-21 years | 31.7 | 32.9 | 30.0 | 40.4 | 42.5 | 34.9 | 33.3 | 30.0 | 41.6 | 20.1 | 14.7 | 22.2 |
| 22-26 years | 53.1 | 51.3 | 55.1 | 22.8 | 24.9 | 17.6 | 58.4 | 64.1 | 44.1 | 79.5 | 85.3 | 72.2 |
| School status | 0.87++ | <0.01++ | 0.07++ | 0.63++ | ||||||||
| Currently in school | 32.4 | 32.1 | 32.7 | 59.2 | 53.2 | 74.9 | 22.6 | 19.6 | 30.4 | 15.3 | 12.7 | 16.3 |
| Married | 0.25++ | 0.61++ | <0.01++ | 0.98++ | ||||||||
| Married/cohabiting | 7.7 | 8.7 | 6.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 11.6 | 15.4 | 2.1 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 10.9 |
| Parenthood | <0.01++ | 0.24++ | <0.01++ | <0.01++ | ||||||||
| Percent with children | 24.5 | 32.7 | 12.8 | 10.8 | 13.0 | 4.9 | 32.3 | 40.1 | 12.4 | 29.5 | 64.6 | 16.3 |
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Characterized by 2020 cohabitation status, prime household earner status, dependency for basic needs, and providing for others’ basic needs through latent class analysis (LCA). Breakdown of factors by status presented in Annex Table 1.
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P-value of the gendered difference; bolding signifies significance; statistical testing through design-based F statistic adjusting for weighting and clustering.