International Family Planning Perspectives |
Why Nigerian Adolescents Seek Abortion Rather than Contraception: Evidence from Focus-Group Discussions |
Table 1. Occupation, education, age range and number of young women aged 15-24 who participated in focus groups, Benin City, Nigeria, 1999 | |||||
Occupation/group | Education | Age range | No. of participants | ||
Total | Not sexually active | Sexually active | |||
Student | Tertiary | 16-19 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Student | Tertiary | 16-20 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
Student | Tertiary | 17-19 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
Student | Secondary | 16-18 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
Student | Secondary | 16-19 | 10 | 6 | 4 |
Student | Secondary | 16-18 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
Food vendor | Primary | 18-21 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Food vendor | None/primary | 17-22 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Seamstress | Primary/secondary | 17-19 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
Seamstress | Primary/secondary | 19-23 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Seamstress | Primary/secondary | 15-20 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
Out-of-school youth | Secondary | 15-20 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
Out-of-school youth | Secondary | 19-21 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Out-of-school youth | Secondary | 18-24 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
Out-of-school youth | Secondary | 18-19 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
Food vendor | None | 19-21 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Hair weaver | None/primary | 15-17 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
Church member | Secondary | 17-19 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
Church member | Secondary | 18-21 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
Youth club member | Secondary | 19-22 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
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