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Table 2 Description of number of dating partners and sexual partners

From: Illegal yet developmentally normative: a descriptive analysis of young, urban adolescents’ dating and sexual behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa

  Girls (n = 282) Boys (n = 190)
Currently datinga(n = 124) Currently non-datinga(n = 156)   Currently datinga(n = 90) Currently non-datinga(n = 100)  
Mean (SD) % (freq) Mean (SD) % (freq) p Mean (SD) % (freq) Mean (SD) % (freq) p
Number of dating partners ever had 0   0.0 (0)   44.5 (69) 0.000   0.0 (0)   23.0 (23) 0.014
1   22.2 (26)   25.2 (39)   18.4 (16)   26.0 (26)
2 or more   77.8 (91)   30.3 (47)   81.6 (71)   51.0 (51)
Total 1.78 (0.42)   0.86 (0.86)   0.000 1.82 (0.39)   1.28 (0.82)   0.004
Number of current dating partners 0   0.0 (0)   100.0 (156) -   0.0 (0)   100.0 (100) -
1   75.8 (94)   0.0 (0)   68.9 (62)   0.0 (0)
2 or more   24.2 (30)   0.0 (0)   31.1 (28)   0.0 (0)
Total 1.24 (0.43)   0 (−)   - 1.31 (0.47)   0 (−)   -
Number of sex partners in the past 3 months 0   58.8 (10)   87.5 (7) -   50.0 (17)   88.9 (16) -
1   41.2 (7)   12.5 (1)   29.4 (10)   11.1 (2)
2 or more   0.0 (0)   0.0 (0)   20.6 (7)   0.0 (0)
Total 0.20 (0.41)   0.05 (0.28)   0.193 0.47 (0.71)   0.06 (0.24)   0.006
  1. aParticipants who had a partner at the time of the survey were classified as “Currently Dating” and those who had no partners were classified as “Currently Non-dating”.