Table 1 Descriptive statistics of background characteristics by region
Region | North Central | North East | North West | South East | South South | South West | All regions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (%) | 5572 (100) | 5766 (100) | 11877 (100) | 4476 (100) | 4942 (100) | 6315 (100) | 38948 (100) |
Residence | |||||||
Rural | 1521 (27.3) | 1579 (27.4) | 3402 (28.7) | 3149 (70.3) | 1913 (38.7) | 4850 (76.8) | 16414 (42.1) |
Urban | 4051 (72.7) | 4187 (72.6) | 8474 (71.3) | 1327 (29.7) | 3029 (61.3) | 1465 (23.2) | 22534 (57.9) |
Educational level | |||||||
None | 1763 (31.7) | 3711 (64.4) | 8240 (69.4) | 235 (5.2) | 249 (5.0) | 531 (8.4) | 14729 (37.8) |
Primary | 1253 (22.5) | 791 (13.7) | 1382 (11.6) | 940 (21.0) | 1144 (23.2) | 1224 (19.4) | 6734 (17.3) |
Secondary | 2016 (36.1) | 980 (17.0) | 1956 (16.5) | 2668 (59.6) | 2845 (57.6) | 3463 (54.8) | 13927 (35.8) |
Higher | 540 (9.7) | 284 (4.9) | 299 (2.5) | 634 (14.2) | 704 (14.2) | 1097 (17.4) | 3558 (9.1) |
Religion | |||||||
Catholic | 931 (16.7) | 150 (2.6) | 314 (2.6) | 2114 (47.2) | 511 (10.4) | 294 (4.6) | 4316 (11.1) |
Others | 2052 (36.8) | 775 (13.5) | 818 (6.9) | 2278 (50.9) | 4253 (86.1) | 3746 (59.3) | 13921 (35.7) |
Islam | 2434 (43.7) | 4788 (83.0) | 10605 (89.3) | 14 (0.3) | 100 (2.0) | 2208 (35.0) | 20149 (51.7) |
Others | 155 (2.8) | 54 (0.9) | 139 (1.2) | 71 (1.6) | 76 (1.5) | 66 (1.1) | 561 (1.4) |
Ethnicity | |||||||
Yoruba | 567 (10.2) | 29 (0.5) | 105 (0.9) | 14 (0.3) | 120 (2.4) | 4646 (73.6) | 5482 (14.1) |
Hausa/Fulani | 404 (7.3) | 2315 (40.2) | 10288 (86.6) | 40 (0.9) | 16 (0.3) | 201 (3.2) | 13263 (34.0) |
Igbo | 131 (2.4) | 18 (0.3) | 130 (1.1) | 4375 (97.7) | 471 (9.5) | 512 (8.1) | 5636 (14.5) |
Others | 4470 (80.2) | 3404 (59.1) | 1354 (11.4) | 47 (1.1) | 4336 (87.7) | 956 (15.1) | 14566 (37.4) |
Wealth quintiles | |||||||
Poorest | 567 (10.2) | 2224 (38.6) | 4036 (34.0) | 189 (4.2) | 21 (0.4) | 95 (1.5) | 7132 (18.3) |
Poorer | 1111 (19.9) | 1491 (25.8) | 3488 (29.4) | 550 (12.3) | 419 (8.5) | 369 (5.8) | 7428 (19.1) |
Middle | 1726 (31.0) | 886 (15.4) | 1867 (15.7) | 1114 (24.9) | 1196 (24.2) | 697 (11.1) | 7486 (19.2) |
Richer | 1185 (21.3) | 664 (11.5) | 1462 (12.3) | 1293 (28.9) | 1585 (32.1) | 1803 (28.5) | 7992 (20.5) |
Richest | 984 (17.6) | 501 (8.7) | 1024 (8.6) | 1330 (29.7) | 1721 (34.8) | 3350 (53.1) | 8910 (22.9) |
Contraceptive use | |||||||
None | 4774 (85.7) | 5585 (96.9) | 11324 (95.4) | 3285 (73.4) | 3528 (71.4) | 4224 (66.9) | 32722 (84.0) |
Folkloric | 29 (0.5) | 9 (0.2) | 37 (0.3) | 16 (0.4) | 69 (1.4) | 90 (1.4) | 250 (0.6) |
Traditional | 115 (2.1) | 15.7 (0.3) | 29 (0.2) | 532 (11.9) | 396 (8.0) | 546 (8.7) | 1634 (4.2) |
Modern | 654 (11.7) | 156 (2.7) | 486 (4.1) | 643 (14.4) | 949 (19.2) | 1454 (23.0) | 4342 (11.2) |
Women working status | |||||||
No | 1708 (30.7) | 3098 (53.7) | 5012 (42.2) | 1589 (35.5) | 1671 (33.8) | 1605 (25.4) | 14685 (37.7) |
Yes | 3835 (68.8) | 2643 (45.8) | 6799 (57.3) | 2856 (63.8) | 3244 (65.7) | 4683 (74.2) | 24060 (61.8) |
Missing | 29 (0.5) | 25 (0.4) | 65 (0.5) | 31 (0.7) | 26 (0.5) | 26 (0.4) | 203 (0.5) |
Age at first sex | |||||||
Never | 975 (17.5) | 672 (11.7) | 1239 (10.4) | 936 (20.9) | 755 (15.3) | 1009 (16.0) | 5586 (14.3) |
< 18 | 2192 (39.3) | 3601 (62.4) | 8551 (72.0) | 1276 (28.5) | 2007 (40.6) | 1925 (30.5) | 19552 (50.2) |
18+ | 1930 (34.64) | 1183 (20.5) | 1610 (13.6) | 1970 (44.0) | 1884 (38.1) | 3114 (49.30 | 11692 (30.0) |
Don’t know | 475 (8.5) | 310 (5.4) | 475 (4.01) | 294 (6.6) | 296 (6.0) | 266 (4.2) | 2118 (5.4) |
Mean ± SD | 18.06 ± 3.78 | 15.95 ± 3.05 | 15.09 ± 2.71 | 18.96 ± 4.35 | 17.27 ± 3.22 | 18.69 ± 3.60 | 16.95 ± 3.66 |