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RESEARCH SUMMARY

July 2003

The Impact of Life Skills Education on
Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors

Study Site and Sampling Design

Two administrative areas in KwaZulu Natal, Durban Metro and Mtunzini Magisterial districts, were purposively selected. Within each area, all youth 14–22 years old residing in a segmented probability sample of Census Enumeration Areas (CEAs) were interviewed in the Wave 1 survey (1999). In Wave 2 (2001), all youth 14 to 24 years old residing in the same CEAs were included in the survey, including 2,222 of the 3,052 youth also interviewed in Wave 1. The analysis in this report is based on the 2,222 youth who were interviewed at both Wave 1 and Wave 2 (see Table 1 for background characteristics).

Table 1 Percent distribution of respondents by background characteristics (n = 2,222)
Age at Wave 1
	14-18	58
	19-22	42
Sex
	Male	46
	Female	54
Population group
	African	77
	Asian	18
	Other (white, Colored)	5
Residence
	Urban	78
	Rural	22
Education
	Not in school during both waves	16
	In school during both waves	62
	In school at wave 1, but not wave 2	19
	In school at wave 2, but not wave 1	3

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