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Table 3 Social and economic characteristics by gender

From: Legacies of humanitarian neglect: long term experiences of children who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda

Characteristic

Females

Males

Education

 Percent returned to formal schooling (n)

29 (19)

51 (75)

 Percent dropped out before completing primary school

68

49

 Percent still enrolled in formal education

0

5

 Percent completed primary school

26

15

 Percent completed secondary school

5

24

GUSCO Skills Training

 Percent received any training (n)

34 (22)

22 (32)

 Percent still using skills

23

16

Eking out a living

 Percent cultivating subsistence crops (n)

93 (52)

90 (118)

 Of those cultivating crops, percent participating in other work

60

47

 Of those cultivating crops, percent enrolled in full-time education

0

0

 Percent not cultivating subsistence crops (n)

7 (4)

10 (15)

 Of those not cultivating crops, percent participating in other work

25

67

 Of those not cultivating crops, percent enrolled in full-time education

0

33