Table 4.2e.1  

Percentage Distribution of Adolescent Respondents According to Their Perception 

of the Place to Give Their Statement 

Do you know where to give your statement?  

Baseline 

Endline 

Police 

72.1 

70.5 

District court 

  8.1 

22.2 

Government lawyer 

  6.8 

VDC 

  3.5 

Don t know 

16.3 

  0.6 

Total 

            100.0 

          100.0 

N 

86 

176 

How many times do you have to report a statement? 

Once 

40.8 

  2.3 

Twice 

  1.4 

  5.1 

Thrice 

35.2 

91.4 

Until the problem is solved 

  0.6 

Don t know 

22.5 

  0.6 

Total 

            100.0  

          100.0 

N 

71 

175 

How should your statement be at all times?

Same  

84.0 

97.7 

Different 

  4.0 

  1.8 

Don t know 

12.0 

  0.6 

Total 

            100.0 

          100.0 

N 

25 

171 

Peer Group 

Compared with the baseline survey where 17% of the peer respondents were not able to 

cite the `police' as the place to give a statement, a large majority (79%) of the 

respondents in the endline survey were able to do so. The other responses were `district 

court' (16%) and `government lawyer' (5%).  

It was interesting to find that unlike the baseline survey where nearly one fourth (23%) of 

the respondents expressed that they did not know about  how many times a statement 

should be reported,  a large majority (85%) of the respondents in the endline survey were 

able to cite the answer  thrice  compared with the baseline where only one fifth (20%) of 

the respondents were able to cite this answer.    

Regarding the nature of a statement, almost all (96%) the peers said that the nature of a 

statement should be the  same at all times  (Table 4.2e.2).

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