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Table 1 Respondents’ demographic and parental background

From: Correlates for psycho-active substance use among boarding secondary school adolescents in Enugu, South East, Nigeria

Characteristics

Frequency

Percentage

Sex

 Male

482

53.8

 Female

414

46.2

Religion

 Christianity

888

99.1

 Islam

6

0.7

 Traditional African Religion

2

0.2

Parental Background

 Father dead

80

8.9

 Mother dead

32

3.6

 One or both parents dead

106

11.8

 Parents alive but divorced

23

2.6

 Parents deprivation

129

14.4

 Father smokes

62

6.9

 Mother smokes

3

0.3

 Father takes alcohol

306

34.2

 Mother takes alcohol

130

14.5