| Percentage of Men Age 15-49 Years who Response to Prompted Questions, Correctly Reject Misconceptions About HIV/AIDS Transmission or Prevention and who Say that a Healthy-Looking Person Can Have HIV/AIDS and Percentage who have a Comprehensive Knowledge About HIV/AIDS by Background Characteristics in India (2015-2016) | ||||||||
| Background Characteristic | Percentage of Men who Say that | Percentage who Reject the Two Specified Misconceptions and Know how to Prevent HIV/AIDS1 | Percentage who Say that a Healthy-Looking Person can have HIV/AIDS | Percentage who say that a Healthy-Looking Person can have HIV/AIDS and who Reject the Two Specified Misconceptions | Percentage who have Comprehensive Knowledge About HIV/AIDS2 | Number of Men | ||
| HIV/AIDS can not be Transmitted by Mosquito Bites | A Person can not Become Infected by Sharing Food with a Person who has AIDS | HIV/AIDS can not be Transmitted by the Two Specified Methods | ||||||
| Age | ||||||||
| 15-24 | ||||||||
| 15-19 | ||||||||
| 20-24 | ||||||||
| 25-29 | ||||||||
| 30-39 | ||||||||
| 40-49 | ||||||||
| Residence | ||||||||
| Urban | ||||||||
| Rural | ||||||||
| Schooling | ||||||||
| No Schooling | ||||||||
| <5 Years Complete | ||||||||
| 5-7 Years Complete | ||||||||
| 8-9 Years Complete | ||||||||
| 10-11 Years Complete | ||||||||
| 12 or More Years Complete | ||||||||
| Marital Status | ||||||||
| Never Married | ||||||||
| Currently Married | ||||||||
| Widowed/Divorced/ Separated/Deserted | ||||||||
| Away from Home for One Month or More at a Time in the Past 12 Months | ||||||||
| Yes | ||||||||
| No | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
