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TERENGGANU GSHS 2012 Results
3.0 RESULTS
3.1 Socio-demographic ProIle
Based on the Population and Housing Census Malaysia in 2010, the population of Terengganu was
about 1.0 million (29). Adolescents between the ages of 10 to 20 years accounted for 23.4% of the total
population. In 2012, there were 111,987 students aged 12 to 17 years in 147 secondary schools under
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Rural Development in Terengganu (30).
A total of 1,848 students from Form 1 to 5 in Terengganu were selected from 17 randomly selected
secondary schools, with 1,645 students or 89.0% responding to our survey. Of the respondents, 50.7%
of students were males (Table 1.2). About 20.3% were from Remove Class/ Form 1, 20.3% from Form
2, 20.2% Form 3, 19.9% Form 4 and the remaining 19.4% from 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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