Variables Categories Frequency Percent (%) High school name Yekatit 25/67 school 179 43.9 Wachemo preparatory 99 24.2 Heto school 63 15.4 Vision academy 24 5.9 Fantu and Aberash (FA) 14 3.4 United vision academy 12 2.9 Harvard academy 8 2.0 School of Deaf 4 1.0 Akleshia 5 1.2 Grade level Nine 154 37.7 Ten 140 34.3 Eleven 56 13.7 Twelve 58 14.3 Sex of the participant Female 231 56.6 Male 177 43.4 Age of the participant 10-14 33 8.1 15-19 285 69.9 20-24 90 22.0 Previous Residence Rural 276 67.6 Urban 132 32.4 Marital status Single 393 96.3 Married 14 3.4 Divorced 1 0.2 Religion of participant Protestant 263 64.5 Catholic 52 12.7 Orthodox 54 13.2 Muslim 39 9.6 Ethnicity of participant Hadiya 245 60.0 Kembata 54 13.2 Amhara 51 12.5 Silte 40 9.8 Others* 18 4.4  Father’s occupation Farmer 206 50.5 Employed 120 29.4 Merchant 82 20.1 Mother’s occupation Housewife 290 71.1 Employed 71 17.4 Merchant 47 11.5 With whom youcurrently live? With family 149 36.5 Alone 136 33.3 With friends 121 29.7 Others** 2 0.5 *Guraghe, Tigre, Oromo, Wolaita **with uncles and aunts

Table 1: Presents socio- demographic characteristics of the participants, high school, Hadiya zone, South, Ethiopia, May 2013 (N= 408).