Variables

Frequency N = 728

%

Age (years)

15 - 19

64

8.7

20 - 24

633

87.0

25 or more

31

4.3

Sex

Male

637

87.5

Female

91

12.5

Department of the student

Natural resource management

52

7.2

Medicine

103

14.1

Law

104

14.3

Electrical engineering

304

41.8

Business administration

105

14.4

Electrical electronics

60

8.2

Year of the study

Second year

286

39.3

Third year

276

37.9

Fourth year

104

14.3

Fifth year

62

8.5

Marital status

Never married

673

92.4

Ever married/cohabiting

55

7.6

Religion

Orthodox Christian

407

55.9

Protestant Christian

114

15.7

Muslim

183

25.1

Others

24

3.3

Ethnicity

Amhara

242

33.3

Oromo

315

43.3

Gurage

70

9.6

Tigre

78

10.7

Others

23

3.2

Monthly pocket money

N = 686

100 - 299 birr

398

59.1

300 or more birr

288

40.9

Family’s main source of income

Daily labourer

26

4.0

Government employee

204

27.9

Business

199

27.3

Agriculture-based

279

38.0

Others

20

2.7