Percentage of Women 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 Women Who Say That | %age Who Reject All Three Miscon- ceptions 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 Women | |||
HIV/AIDS Cannot be Trans- mitted by Mosquito Bites | HIV/AIDS Cannot be Trans- mitted by Hugging Someone Who Has 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 | |||||||||
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 |