| Percentage of Women Age 15-49 who Believe that Wife Justified in Refusing to have Sexual Intercourse with her Husband in Specific Circumstances by Background Characteristics in India (2015-2016) | ||||||
| Background Characteristic | Percentage who Agree that a Wife is Justified in Refusing to have Sex with her Husband when She | Percentage who Agree with All Three Reasons | Percentage who Agree with None of the Three Reasons | Number of Women | ||
| Knows her Husband has a Sexually Transmitted Disease | Knows her Husband has Sex with Other Women | Is Tired or Not in the Mood | ||||
| Age | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| Household Structure1 | ||||||
| Nuclear | ||||||
| Non-Nuclear | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
