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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of Wolaita Sodo University students, 2015, N = 462

From: Sexual violence against female university students in Ethiopia

Variables

Frequency

Percentage %

Age

 Median 20.00, Range 18–26

  

Religion

 Orthodox

203

43.9

 Protestant

146

31.6

 Muslim

91

19.7

 Others

22

4.7

Place where they came from

 Rural

240

52.0

 Urban

222

48.0

Ethnic origin

 Wolaita

107

23.1

 Amhara

102

22.0

 Oromo

74

16.0

 Hadiya

40

8.6

 Tigre

31

6.9

 Others

108

23.3

College/school

 Engineering

138

29.9

 Natural & computational sciences

83

18.0

 Agriculture

52

11.3

 Business and economics

43

9.4

 Social science and humanities

41

8.9

 Health sciences

35

7.5

 Education and behavioral science

33

7.1

 Law

21

4.5

 Veterinary medicine

16

3.4

Year of study

 Year I

223

48.3

 Year II

147

31.8

 Year III+

92

19.9