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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants, Southern Ethiopia

From: Determinants of good academic performance among university students in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Variables

Category

Academic Performance

p-value

Poor

Good

Age

15 - 19 years

9 (29.0)

22 (71.0)

0.0661

20 – 24 years

187 (35.8)

336 (64.2)

 

25 – 29 years

13 (21.3)

48 (78.7)

 

Gender

Male

109 (29.7)

258 (70.3)

0.5791

Female

93 (37.5)

155 (62.5)

 

Residence

Rural

94 (39.0)

147 (61.0)

0.0351*

Urban

115 (30.7)

259 (69.3)

 

Mothers’ education

No formal education

113 (39.2)

175 (60.8)

0.0051*

Primary

36 (34.6)

68 (65.4)

 

Secondary

33 (34.4)

63 (65.6)

 

College and above

27 (21.3)

100 (78.7)

 

Fathers’ education

No formal education

92 (40.5)

135 (59.5)

0.0511*

Primary

32 (31.4)

70 (68.6)

 

Secondary

27 (33.8)

53 (66.3)

 

College and above

58 (28.2)

148 (71.8)

 

Faculty

Medical/Health

24 (17.1)

116 (82.9)

< 0.001*

Non-medical/Health

185 (38.9)

290 (61.1)

 

Family size

Small

30 (28.3)

76 (71.7)

0.3041

Medium

169 (35.6)

306 (64.4)

 

Large

10 (29.4)

24 (70.6)

 
  1. 1Two-sided Pearson Chi-Square Test
  2. 1*p-value ≤0.25