Designing a package of sexual and reproductive health and HIV outreach services to meet the heterogeneous preferences of young people in Malawi: results from a discrete choice experiment

Table 2 Study population characteristics

Variable Name	Description	Study Sample (n)	Rural Areas in Malawi ^d
Age	15-19 years	60.7% (328)	56.3%
	20-24 years	39.3% (212)	43.7%
Gender	Male	50.2% (269)	48.2%
	Female	49.8% (271)	51.8%
Number of people normally resident in the household	1-4 people	44.4% (240)	55.3%
	5-8 people	48.5% (262)	40.0%
	9 or more	5.7% (31)	4.5%
	Missing	1.3% (7)	-
Average monthly household income	< MK^b 1,000/m	8.5% (46)
	MK 1,000-4,999/m	44.6% (241)
	MK 5,000-9,999/m	17.4% (94)
	MK 10,000-19,999/m	4.1% (22)
	MK 20,000-29,999/m	0.7% (4)
	+ MK 30,000	0.7% (4)
	Don't know	23.9% (129)
Paid employment in the last 12 months	Yes	56.1% (303)	63%^e
Paid employment in the last 12 months	No	43.9% (237)	37% ^e
Employment Type	Employed full-time	2.6% (8)
	Casual/Seasonal	65.3% (198)
	Self-employed	23.1% (70)
	Other	8.9% (27)
School	Currently attending school	49.3% (266)	-
Relationship	Currently in a relationship	64.3% (347)	-
Sex	Sexually active in the past 12 months	77.6% (302)	-
FP^a Use, 15-19	Respondents aged 15–19 years who used a modern method of FP in the 12 months preceding the survey^c	37.8% (124)	19.5%
FP Use, 20-24	Respondents aged 20–24 years who used a modern method of FP in the 12 months preceding the survey^c	70.8% (150)	67.1%
Future FP	Non-users (n = 266) who indicated an intention to use FP in the future	91.1% (242)	-
Amount paid for FP at the last place accessed	Free	82% (244)
	10 to 50MK	3% (9)
	51 to 200MK	12% (35)
	201 to 500MK	2% (5)
	Can't remember	1% (3)
N = 540

^aFP = Family Planning, ^bMK = Malawi Kwacha (1000MK was equal to approximately USD$4.00 in May-June 2012), ^cThese figures are not directly comparable as this study measured FP use in the 12 months preceding the survey while the DHS data for rural Malawi represents ever use of FP, ^dSource: National Statistical Office (2011), ^eThese figures are not directly comparable as DHS figures refer to employment status among both rural and urban residents.

ISSN: 2191-1991