Out of school female adolescent employment status and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) risk in Uganda: is it a plausible relationship?

Table 1 Attributes of the respondents

Variables	Frequency	Percent	Variables	Frequency	Percent
STI status in last 12 months			Wealth status
No	1151	79.77	Poorest	307	21.27
Yes	292	20.25	Poorer	295	20.40
Employment status			Middle	270	18.69
Not employed and not paid	482	33.37	Richer	293	20.30
Employed but not paid	166	11.51	Richest	279	19.34
Sales and services &paid in cash or kind	174	12.07	Religion
Self- employed in Agriculture and paid in cash or kind	401	27.73	Catholic	450	31.18
Household/domestic worker and paid in cash or kind	60	4.15	Protestant	588	40.74
Manual workers paid in cash or kind	161	11.18	Muslim	204	14.10
Number of lifetime sexual partners			Pentecostal /others	202	13.98
One partner	795	55.02	Place of residence
Two or more	650	44.98	Urban	316	21.86
Marital status			Rural	1128	78.14
Never married	630	43.7	Region
Ever married	813	56.4	Kampala	56	3.85
Age difference with recent sexual partner			Central1	187	12.94
0–4	828	57.33	Central2	162	11.24
5–9	449	31.11	Busoga	123	8.51
10 above	167	11.56	Bukedi	139	9.65
Age at first sex			Bugishu	90	6.21
15 and below	654	45.28	Teso	112	7.75
16–19 or in union	790	54.72	Karamoja	22	1.55
Age of respondent			Lango	92	6.37
15–17	554	38.4	Acholi	81	5.61
18–19	889	61.6	West Nile	86	5.95
Education level			Bunyoro	87	6.05
None /Primary	993	68.81	Tooro	101	6.99
Secondary+	450	31.19	Ankole	69	4.79
Total	1444	100.00	Kigezi	37	2.56
			Total	1444	100.00

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