Characteristics of Households - Childinfo.org

Table HH.4M: Men’s background characteristics, Serbia, 2010Percent and frequency distribution of men age 15–29 years by selectedbackground characteristicsWeighted Number of menpercent Weighted UnweightedRegionBelgrade 20.2 319 336Vojvodina 25.8 408 406Sumadija and Western Serbia 28.3 448 448Southern and Eastern Serbia 25.8 408 393AreaUrban 57.4 908 909Rural 42.6 675 674Age15–19 29.4 465 34620–24 32.3 512 44425–29 38.3 606 793Marital/Union statusCurrently married/in union 18.3 290 572Formerly married/in union 1.2 19 17Never married/in union 80.5 1274 994EducationNone .1 2 6Primary 7.6 120 159Secondary 65.2 1032 1063Higher 27.1 429 355Weighted Number of menpercent Weighted UnweightedWealth index quintilePoorest 14.9 235 255Second 20.6 326 317Middle 20.3 321 301Fourth 21.1 334 345Richest 23.2 367 365Ethnicity of household headSerbian 87.3 1381 1358Hungarian 3.9 63 64Bosnian 2.3 36 38Roma 3.3 52 63Other 2.4 38 48Doesn’t want to declare .8 13 12Total 100.0 1583 1583Table HH.4M provides background characteristics ofmale respondents 15–29 years of age. The table includesinformation on the distribution of men according toregion, residence, age, marital status, education, wealthindex quintiles, and ethnicity of the head of household.Approximately, 28 percent of interviewed eligible menlive in Sumadia and Western Serbia, and 20 percent inBelgrade. Distribution among the other two regions isequal (about 26 percent). The predominant group in thesample are men between 25–29 years of age, around 38percent. The proportion of younger men is significantlylower — there are 29 percent of men in the 15–19 yearsgroup. Around 18 percent of all men in this sample aremarried, while 80 percent have never been married. Themajority of interviewed men have secondary education(65 percent), while the proportion of men with noeducation is 0.1 percent, with only primary education is8 percent, and with higher education is approximately27 percent. In accordance with the household ethnicdistribution, the majority of men live in householdswhere the ethnicity of the head of the household isSerbian. The respective proportion of other ethnicgroups is under 4 percent. As for the wealth indexquintiles, fewer men aged 15–29 live in householdswithin the poorest quintile — about 15 percent — whileapproximately the same number of men belongs to eachof the remaining groups (20 to 23 percent).MONITORING THE SITUATION OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN 35