Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants
Frequency | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|
Individual-level factors | ||
Age | ||
15–19 | 500 | 35.2 |
20–24 | 922 | 64.8 |
Age at first sex | ||
< 15 years | 159 | 11.2 |
15–17 years | 583 | 41.0 |
18 + years | 680 | 47.8 |
Educational attainment | ||
No education | 58 | 4.1 |
Primary | 217 | 15.3 |
Secondary/higher | 1147 | 80.7 |
Knowledge of ovulation cycle | ||
Correct knowledge | 363 | 25.5 |
Wrong knowledge | 1059 | 74.5 |
Current contraceptive use | ||
No method | 676 | 47.5 |
Folkloric/traditionalist | 97 | 6.8 |
Modern method | 648 | 45.6 |
Smokes cigarettes | ||
No | 1396 | 98.2 |
Yes | 26 | 1.8 |
Household-level factor | ||
Wealth quintile | ||
Poorest | 191 | 13.4 |
Poorer | 219 | 15.4 |
Middle | 315 | 22.2 |
Richer | 397 | 27.9 |
Richest | 299 | 21.1 |
Interpersonal-level factors | ||
Heard FP on radio | ||
Yes | 980 | 68.9 |
No | 442 | 31.1 |
Heard FP on TV | ||
No | 580 | 40.8 |
Yes | 842 | 59.2 |
Community-level factors | ||
Religion | ||
Christians | 949 | 66.7 |
Moslem | 222 | 15.6 |
Traditional/spiritualist | 149 | 10.5 |
Other | 102 | 7.2 |
Ethnicity | ||
Akan | 764 | 53.7 |
Non-Akans | 658 | 46.3 |
Place of residence | ||
Urban | 747 | 52.5 |
Rural | 675 | 47.5 |
Structural-level factor | ||
Year of survey | ||
2003 | 386 | 27.2 |
2008 | 520 | 36.6 |
2014 | 515 | 36.2 |
Total | 1422 | 100.0 |