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Results W.P. PUTRAJAYA GSHS 2012
3.0 RESULTS
3.1 Socio-demographic ProIle
Based on the Population and Housing Census of Malaysia in 2010, the population ofW.P. Putrajaya was
about 70 thousands (29). Adolescents between the ages of 10 to 20 years old accounted for 11.6%
of the total population. In 2012, there were 5,966 students aged 12 to 17 years in a total of 8 secondary
schools under Ministry of Education and Ministry of Rural Development in W.P. Putrajaya (30).
A total of 2,076 students from Form 1 to 5 were selected in W.P. Putrajaya from 8 randomly selected
secondary schools, with 1,914 students or 92.2% responding to our survey. Of the respondents, 43.2%
were males (Table1.2). About 21.2% were from Remove Class/Form 1, 21.0% from Form 2, 21.1% Form
3, 18.7% Form 4 and the remaining 18.0% from Form 5 (Table1.3). The ethnicity and parental marital
status of the respondents are as shown in Tables 1.4 and 1.5.
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