Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of Adet Tana Haik college students Northwest Ethiopia, 2017
Variables | Category | Frequency | Percent (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Age in years | 15–19 | 69 | 16.6 |
20–24 | 319 | 76.6 | |
25–29 | 28 | 6.8 | |
Sex | Male | 168 | 40.4 |
Female | 248 | 59.6 | |
Marital status | Single | 350 | 84.1 |
Married | 66 | 15.9 | |
Residence | Urban | 133 | 32.0 |
Rural | 283 | 68.0 | |
Living arrangement | Husband/wife | 110 | 26.4 |
Parents | 40 | 9.6 | |
School friends | 266 | 63.9 | |
Department | Accounting | 243 | 58.4 |
Management | 42 | 10.1 | |
Secretary | 60 | 14.4 | |
Co-operative | 71 | 17.1 | |
Year of study | First | 159 | 38.2 |
Second | 131 | 31.5 | |
Third | 126 | 30.3 | |
Elementary and high school attended | Public | 348 | 83.7 |
Private | 48 | 11.5 | |
Both | 20 | 4.8 | |
Paternal education | Unable to read and write | 265 | 63.7 |
Primary school | 115 | 27.6 | |
Secondary and above | 36 | 8.7 | |
Paternal occupation | Farmer | 379 | 91.1 |
Governmental employee | 20 | 4.8 | |
Merchant | 17 | 4.1 | |
Maternal education | Unable to read and write | 282 | 67.8 |
Primary school | 95 | 22.8 | |
Secondary and above | 39 | 9.4 | |
Maternal occupation | Housewife | 355 | 85.3 |
Merchant | 31 | 7.5 | |
Governmental employee | 30 | 7.2 |