| Percentage of Men Age 15-49 Who, in Response to Prompted Questions, Correctly Reject Misconceptions About HIV/AIDS Transmission or Prevention and who say that Healthy- Looking Person can have HIV/AIDS and Percentage who have Comprehensive Knowledge About HIV/AIDS by Background Characteristics in India (2005-2006) | |||||||||
| Background Characteristic | Percentage of Men Who Say That | %age Who Reject All Three Misconc- eptions and Know How to Prevent HIV/ AIDS1 | %age Who Say That a Healthy- Looking Person can Have HIV/ AIDS | %age Who Say That a Healthy- Looking Person can Have HIV/AIDS and Who Reject Two Most Common Misconc- eptions2 | %age Who Have a Compreh- ensive Know- ledge About HIV /AIDS3 | No. of Men | |||
| HIV/AIDS can not be Trans- mitted by Mosquito Bites | HIV/AIDS Cannot Be Trans- mitted by Hugging Someone Who as AIDS | A Person can not Become Infected by Sharing Food With a Person Who Has AIDS | HIV/AIDS can not be Trans- mitted by Any of Specified Methods | ||||||
| Age | |||||||||
| 15-24 | |||||||||
| 15-19 | |||||||||
| 20-24 | |||||||||
| 25-29 | |||||||||
| 30-39 | |||||||||
| 40-49 | |||||||||
| Residence | |||||||||
| Urban | |||||||||
| Rural | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| No education | |||||||||
| < 5 years complete | |||||||||
| 5-7 years complete | |||||||||
| 8-9 years complete | |||||||||
| 10-11 years complete | |||||||||
| 12 or more years complete | |||||||||
| Regular Media Exposure4 | |||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||
| No | |||||||||
| Marital Status | |||||||||
| Never married | |||||||||
| Ever had sex | |||||||||
| Never had sex | |||||||||
| Currently married | |||||||||
| Married once | |||||||||
| Married more than once | |||||||||
| Widowed/ divorced/ separated/ deserted | |||||||||
| Currently Residing with Spouse5 | |||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||
| No | |||||||||
| Times Slept Away from Home N Past 12 Months | |||||||||
| None | |||||||||
| 1-2 | |||||||||
| 3-4 | |||||||||
| 5 + | |||||||||
| Time Away in Past 12 Months | |||||||||
| Away for more than 1 month | |||||||||
| Away for 1 month or less | |||||||||
| Not away | |||||||||
| Employment (Past 12 Months) | |||||||||
| Employed | |||||||||
| Professional | |||||||||
| Sales worker | |||||||||
| Service worker | |||||||||
| Production worker | |||||||||
| Agricultural worker | |||||||||
| Other worker | |||||||||
| Not employed | |||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||
| Hindu | |||||||||
| Muslim | |||||||||
| Christian | |||||||||
| Sikh | |||||||||
| Buddhist/ Neo-Buddhist | |||||||||
| Jain | |||||||||
| Other | |||||||||
| Caste/Tribe | |||||||||
| Scheduled caste | |||||||||
| Scheduled tribe | |||||||||
| Other backward class | |||||||||
| Other | |||||||||
| Don`t know | |||||||||
| Wealth Index | |||||||||
| Lowest | |||||||||
| Second | |||||||||
| Middle | |||||||||
| Fourth | |||||||||
| Highest | |||||||||
| Total age 15-49 | |||||||||
| Age 50-54 | |||||||||
| Total age 15-54 | |||||||||
