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Socio-demographic characteristics of ever or currently married women, Nigeria 2003* |
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| Measure/variable |
Weighted sample (percentage) |
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| Dependent variable |
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| Early sexual debut (15 years or less) |
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| Yes |
2755 (48.4) |
| No |
2937 (51.6) |
| Individual characteristics |
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| Age (completed years) |
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| 15 – 24 |
1523 (26.8) |
| 25 – 34 |
2106 (37.0) |
| 35+ |
2063 (36.2) |
| Education |
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| No education |
3044 (53.5) |
| Primary |
1266 (22.2) |
| Secondary or higher |
1381 (24.3) |
| Ethnicity |
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| Hausa/Fulani |
2387 (41.9) |
| Igbo |
582 (10.2) |
| Yoruba |
535 (9.4) |
| Others |
2168 (38.1) |
| Religion |
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| Christian |
2156 (37.9) |
| Islam |
3444 (60.5) |
| Others |
89 (1.6) |
| Community characteristics |
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| Type of residence |
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| Rural |
3907 (68.6) |
| Urban |
1785 (31.4) |
| Community ethnic diversity†, Mean (SE) |
3.7 (0.09) |
| Community median age of marriage, Mean (SE) |
16.2 (0.11) |
| Community median spousal age gap, Mean (SE) |
9.7 (0.08) |
| Geopolitical region |
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| North-central |
807 (14.2) |
| North-east |
1197 (21.2) |
| North-west |
1949 (34.2) |
| South-east |
396 (7.0) |
| South-south |
764 (13.4) |
| South-west |
579 (10.2) |
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Abbreviation – SE – Standard Error †Number of ethnic group in a community, represents the likelihood that two persons, chosen at random from the same area, belong to different ethnic group *Data source – 2003 Nigerian Demographic and Survey. Sample size – 5531 | |
Uthman International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:27 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-27 |
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