**5.1 The socio demographic characteristics**

More than half of the children were male (60.3%) against 39.7% female.

Just below 1% (0.9%) of the children born during the war were aged less than 5 years. Figure 2 below shows the distribution of the children by age category.

Fig. 2. Distribution of age

Ninety-two (92.2%) of the children did not go to school: Fifty-eight percent (57.7%) of them dropped out of school due to the war (0.3% at Kindergarten, 52.8% at primary school and 4.6% at secondary school) , 34.5% have never gone to school and only 7.8% attended school ( 4.6% at primary school and 3.2% at secondary school). Among these children, 86.8% had no activity while 13.2% were farmers, fishers or breeders.
