• Approximately five million adolescent women (aged 15–19) currently live in the Philippines; they account for nearly one-fifth (19%) of all women of reproductive age (15–49).[1]
• As of 2013, adolescent women in the Philippines had completed a median of 9.0 years of schooling,[2] which represents steady improvement from medians of 8.6 years in 2003 and 8.8 years in 2008.[3,4]
• A slight majority of adolescent women reported at least weekly exposure to radio (55%) and more than four-fifths, to television (83%); 29% read newspapers at least once a week.[2] A sizable proportion (43%) said they go online at least once a week, but Internet exposure was higher than average in urban areas (56%) and lower than average in rural areas (28%).
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