Table 1 Characteristics of women participants (n = 40)
Characteristic | Number | |
|---|---|---|
Ethnicity | Tigrigna | 39 |
Saho | 1 | |
Age (years) | 15–16 | 1 |
17–24 | 11 | |
25–34 | 25 | |
35–49 | 3 | |
Education | Primary school (grades 0–7) | 9 |
Middle school (grades 8–10) | 15 | |
Secondary school (grades 11–14) | 14 | |
Occupation | Unemployed | 35 |
Employed | 5 | |
Religion | Orthodox Christian | 23 |
Other Christian | 5 | |
Muslim | 8 | |
Marital status | Never married | 1 |
1st wife | 36 | |
2nd wife | 2 | |
3rd wife | 1 | |
Parity (the number of times a female is or has been pregnant (gravidity) and carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age) | 0 | 13 |
1 | 1 | |
2–3 | 9 | |
4–7 | 11 | |
Number of abortions | 7 |