Table 2.1.1  

Percentage Distribution of Adolescent Respondents by Background Characteristics   

Background Characteristics 

Baseline 

Endline 

Age group  

Under 15 

66.5 

66.5 

15 and above 

33.5 

33.5 

Caste/Ethnicity 

Brahmin/Chetri/Thakuri 

31.3 

35.2 

Magar 

43.8 

18.8 

Rai/Tamang/Gurung 

  1.1 

Kami/Damai/Sarki 

23.9 

46.0 

Marital status 

Married 

  3.4 

Unmarried 

96.6 

100.0 

Total 

               100.0 

                100.0 

N 

176 

176 

Peer Groups 

More than three fourths (78%) of the respondents were from the age group 9 to 14 and 

more than one fifth (22%) of respondents were from the age group 15 and above. 

Among the various caste/ethnicity compositions of the study population in the endline 

survey, BCT comprised the dominant group (48%) followed by Magar (26%) and 

Kami/Damai/Sarki (KDS) (25%). In the baseline survey, the Magar ethnic group was the 

dominant group (49%) followed by Brahmin/Chetri/Thakuri (BCT) (31%) and KDS 

(19%). In the endline survey the peer group also did not represent peers from the 

Rai/Tamang/Gurung (RTG) ethnic groups, since KDS, BCT and Magar formed the 

dominant ethnic group of the peers in the project areas of AMK. 

Unlike the baseline survey, where 9% of the peers were married, almost all (99%) the 

peers covered in the endline survey were unmarried (Table 2.1.2). 

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