Table 1 Demographic, behavioural, social and health related characteristics of the study sample, adolescent girls and young women (15–24 years), South Africa

From: Prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence among the adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: findings the 2017 population based cross-sectional survey

Variables	N^a	%
Age group in years
15–19	224	26.4
20–24	492	73.6
Race groups
African	594	87.9
other	122	12.1
Marital status
Married	32	5.8
Never married	681	94.2
Education level
No education/Primary	34	6.2
Secondary	356	80.2
Tertiary	38	13.6
Employment status
Not employed	616	86.1
Employed	95	13.9
Asset based SES^b
Low SES	374	54.6
HIGH SES	286	45.4
Locality type
Urban	392	64.6
Rural informal (tribal areas)	253	30.0
Rural (farms)	71	5.4
AUDIT score^c
Abstainers	477	73.1
Low risk drinkers (1–7)	101	19.6
High risk drinkers (8–19)	46	5.6
Hazardous drinkers (20+)	5	1.7
Orphanhood
Not orphan	188	62.7
Orphan	112	37.3
Psychological distress
Absent	576	77.9
Present	137	22.1

^aSubtotals do not all equal to the total (N) due to non-response and / or missing data, ^bsocio-economic status, (SES), ^calcohol risk score based on a questionnaire for Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)

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