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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristic of respondents at Wollega University, 2017

From: Knowledge, attitude and practice of cervical cancer screening and associated factors amongst female students at Wollega University, western Ethiopia

Variables

Frequency

Percent

Age in years

 15–20

25

3.1

 21–25

675

83.9

 26–30

105

13.0

 15–20

25

3.1

Marital status

 Married

36

4.5

 Single

769

95.5

Religion

 Orthodox

167

20.7

 Protestant

480

59.6

 Muslim

107

13.3

 Catholic

51

6.3

Ethnicity

 Oromo

608

75.5

 Amhara

143

17.8

 Tigre

12

1.5

 Others

42

5.2

School/college

 Engineering and technology

344

42.7

 Natural and computational sciences

159

19.8

 Medicine and health sciences

91

11.3

 Business and economics

145

18.0

 Social sciences and humanities

66

8.2

Year of study

 Second year

494

61.4

 Third year

159

19.8

 Forth year

127

15.8

 Fifth year

25

3.1