Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of urban adolescents and young women (15–24 years old), Guinea by survey year
Socio-demographic characteristics | Variables | 1999 DHS | 2005 DHS | 2012 DHS | 2018 DHS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 1026 Weighted n = 950 | n = 1034 Weighted n = 1095 | n = 1650 Weighted: n = 1565 | n = 1876 Weighted n = 1916 | ||||||
% | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | ||
Age group (years) | 15–19 | 57.5 | 53.8–61.2 | 59.4 | 56.2–62.5 | 54.3 | 51.6–56.9 | 58.8 | 56.2–61.4 |
20–24 | 42.5 | 38.8–46.2 | 40.7 | 37.5–43.9 | 45.7 | 43.1–48.4 | 41.2 | 38.6–43.8 | |
Administrative region | Boke urban | NA | NA | 9.1 | 7.3–11.4 | 9.9 | 8.0–12.3 | 7.3 | 5.9–9.1 |
Conakry | NA | NA | 47.9 | 42.5–53.4 | 58.9 | 53.3–64.3 | 46.2 | 41.5–51.0 | |
Faranah urban | NA | NA | 5.3 | 4.2–7.3 | 5.7 | 3.8–8.5 | 5.9 | 4.4–7.7 | |
Kankan urban | NA | NA | 5.7 | 4.3–7.4 | 5.2 | 4.1–6.7 | 8.0 | 6.6–9.7 | |
Kindia urban | NA | NA | 8.8 | 6.1–12.5 | 9.1 | 6.2–13.0 | 13.8 | 11.1–17.1 | |
Labe urban | NA | NA | 3.5 | 2.6–4.7 | 1.6 | 1.0–2.5 | 2.9 | 1.9–4.4 | |
Mamou urban | NA | NA | 2.4 | 1.7–3.5 | 1.9 | 1.3–2.7 | 3.5 | 1.7–7.1 | |
N’Zérékoré urban | NA | NA | 17.1 | 11.6–24.3 | 7.7 | 6.0–9.9 | 12.4 | 8.8–17.4 | |
Education level | No Education | 46.9 | 43.5–50.7 | 39.7 | 35.9–43.7 | 26.2 | 22.8–30.0 | 28.9 | 26.1–31.1 |
Primary | 29.2 | 26.2–32.3 | 21.8 | 19.1–24.8 | 20.9 | 18.2–23.9 | 18.2 | 15.3–20.7 | |
Secondary | 22.3 | 19.2–25.8 | 37.8 | 33.4–42.4 | 44.7 | 41.1–48.3 | 46.0 | 41.9–48.4 | |
Higher | 1.6 | 1.0–2.7 | 0.6 | 0.3–1.3 | 8.2 | 6.2–10.7 | 6.9 | 7.0–10.4 | |
Religion | Muslim | 90.5 | 87.2–92.9 | 87.4 | 81.2–91.7 | 91.7 | 89.1–93.7 | 88.8 | 81.2–91.9 |
Christian and other | 9.5 | 7.1–12.8 | 12.7 | 8.3–18.8 | 8.3 | 6.3–10.9 | 11.2 | 8.1–18.8 | |
Marital status | Never married | 53.8 | 49.9–57.7 | 59.0 | 54.3–63.6 | 64.9 | 60.6–69.0 | 67.4 | 65.1–71.0 |
Ever married | 46.2 | 42.3–50.2 | 41.0 | 36.4–45.7 | 35.1 | 31.1–39.4 | 32.6 | 28.9–34.9 | |
Ethnicity | Soussou | 29.5 | 24.4–35.0 | 25.6 | 19.9–31.4 | 28.6 | 22.7–35.3 | 29.5 | 24.7–34.8 |
Peulh | 28.1 | 23.4–33.5 | 33.7 | 27.7–40.2 | 31.2 | 24.9–38.2 | 25.7 | 21.5–30.3 | |
Malinké | 30.4 | 26.4–34.8 | 26.2 | 22.4–30.3 | 29.0 | 25.6–32.8 | 30.6 | 26.6–35.0 | |
Other | 12.0 | 9.3–14.9 | 14.9 | 10.7–20.4 | 11;3 | 8.8–14.3 | 14.2 | 9.7–20.4 | |
Household wealth index (quintiles) | Poorest | 0.2 | 0.0–1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2–2.1 | 0.5 | 0.2–1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2–2.2 |
Poorer | 0.2 | 0.0–0.8 | 1.2 | 0.5–2.7 | 0.8 | 0.4–2.0 | 2.4 | 1.1–6.7 | |
Middle | 3.7 | 2.6–5.5 | 4.7 | 2.9–7.3 | 2.7 | 1.8–4.1 | 6.1 | 4.0–8.0 | |
Richer | 28.1 | 23.6–33.0 | 27.5 | 22.8–32.6 | 33.3 | 28.5–38.4 | 35.9 | 28.6–37.5 | |
Richest | 67.8 | 62.9–72.4 | 66.1 | 60.6–71.2 | 62.7 | 57.3–67.8 | 55.2 | 52.6–63.2 | |