Factors influencing adolescent sexual activity in Nigeria: analysis of the 1990 Demographic and Health Survey
Unmarried adolescents in Nigeria have become more sexually active over the past decade. Data are available from Nigeria's 1990 National Demographic and Health Survey for 1678 unmarried female adolescents aged 15-19 years. 1104 of these young women were unmarried at the time of the survey. 26.4% of the unmarried women were sexually active at the time of the survey, 67.5% of whom had unprotected...
Published at Journal of Population & Social Studies
Volume 4
Issue 1-2
Pages 103-119
Published in 1993
Muyiwa Oladosu
Oladosun Muyiwa » Muyiwa Oladosun joined Covenant University as Senior Lecturer/Coordinator, Demography and Social Statistics, in January 2015. Before joining Covenant University, he was the Managing Director/Principal Consultant at Covenant Friends International Consultants (former MiraMonitor Consulting Ltd.), USA/Nigeria between 2002-2014; Senior Research Associate with The Guttmacher Institute, USA,... view full profile
