Percentage of Women 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 Women 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 Women | ||
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 cannot 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 Months3 | ||||||||
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 |