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PERAK GSHS 2012 Results
3.0 RESULTS
3.1 Socio-demographic ProIle
Based on the Population and Housing Census Malaysia in 2010, the population of Perak was about 2.4
thousands (29). Adolescents between the ages of 10 to 20 years old accounted for 20.1% of the total
population. In 2012, there were 21,051 students aged 12 to 17 years in a total of 248 secondary schools
under Ministry of Education and Ministry of Rural Development in Perak (30).
A total of 2,135 students from Forms 1 to 5 were selected in Perak from 17 randomly selected
secondary schools, with 1,862 students or 87.2% responding to our survey. Of the respondents, 50.2%
were males (Table 1.2). About 21.8% were from Remove Class/Form 1, 20.0% from Form 2, 19.9%
Form 3, 19.6% Form 4 and the remaining 18.8% Form 5 (Table 1.3).The ethnicity and parental marital
status of the respondents are as shown in Tables 1.4 and 1.5.
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