BMC Public Health 2007, 7:354 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/354 Table 2: Aspects of use of selected media Working radios in household (%) 0 1 2 or more Hours a week listening to radio, Mean (SD) Working televisions in household (%) 0 1 2 or more Hours a week watching television, Mean (SD) Ever used the internet (%yes) Home access to the Internet (%yes) E-mail account (%yes) Total N = 1145 In-school n = 1011 Out-of-school n = 134 Chi Square statistic 17.1 65.9 17.0 21.13(12.56) 14.8 69.5 15.7 19.45(13.90) 73.1 41.9 58.0 11.7 66.0 22.3 6(4.87) 9.9 73.9 16.2 22.13(12.19) 74.9 43.9 65.2 18.8 76.6 4.6 23.34(18.18) 15.5 75.3 9.2 11.98(22.89) 68.6 5.6 57.4 12.45** 6.22** 67.22** 12.14** 12.17** 22.19** 1.99** therefore require that each of the groups be discussed dif- ferently. The in-school adolescents Majority of the in-school respondents have one radio and one television respectively in their household, and the average number of hours spent watching television is more than that spent listening to radios. Also, the number of girls that reported ever having used the Internet was more than those who reported having email accounts, and further much more than those who have access at home. The survey also asked questions regarding fre- quency of use of the Internet, and found that of those who have ever used the Internet, 15.6% had used the Internet zero days in the last one month, 25.6% had used the Inter- net 1–5 days in the last one month and 58.8% had used the Internet one to three days in the last one week. There is no significant relationship between frequency of use of the Internet and occupation of parents and household appliances. But there is a significant relationship with age, living type and educational status of parents. A surprising result is that those with home access reported that they used the Internet slightly less frequently, 49.59% having used the Internet two to three days in the last one week, than those without home access, with 50.41% using the facility during the same period. More surprising is the observation that those with home access reported having used the Internet more at the cybercafes (64.25%) than they have used their home facility (35.75%). Further investigation of the media through which those who have Internet facility at home established access, found that 12.24% used phone line, 34.23% used a cable modem while 43.53% accessed the Internet through DSL facility. Majority of the in-school adolescents (72%) accessed the Internet services through the Internet cafes, 43% used the school facility, 15% home facility, while 13% and 9% respectively reported that they used Internet facilities in friends' homes and other family members. The reason for this pattern of access was investigated further by an oral interview, and it was discovered that the adolescents pre- ferred locations where they would enjoy unsupervised access [24] The issue of reproductive health information sources used by the adolescents is now addressed (Table 3). Among the in-school adolescents, parents, teachers, public health campaigns, books, health provider/clinics, and health classes in descending order, each constituted more than 50% of the sources through which the adolescents sourced health information. Those in-school adolescents who are living with their parents (22.23%) are almost as likely as those living in-school boarding houses (23.13%) and other hostel (24.23%) to use the Internet for repro- ductive health information purposes while those in other type of residential category have the most likelihood (31.41%). There is also a significant difference between the use of Internet for reproductive health information purposes with type of access. The adolescents who have home access (33.12%) are less likely than those without home access, just as those who have ever used the Internet (79.19%) are by far most likely than those who have never used the Internet to exploit the use of the facility for the purpose of searching for reproductive health information. All those who have ever used the Internet for reproductive health information purpose also reported having own email accounts. This author joined Borzekowski et al.[25] to list 22 specific and reproductive health related topics, (20 topics in all), and asked the youths to select the ones on which they have ever sought for information. The topics listed are Page 5 of 13 (page number not for citation purposes)