Vietnam Population and AIDS Indicator Survey 2005 ... - Measure DHS

Table 6.2.1 Multiple sexual partners and higher-risk sexual intercourse in the past 12 months:
women
Among women age 15-49 who had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months, the percentage who
had intercourse with more than one partner and the percentage who had higher-risk sexual
intercourse in the past 12 months, and among those having higher-risk intercourse in the last 12
months, the percentage reporting that a condom was used at last higher-risk intercourse, and the
mean number of sexual partners during their lifetime for women who ever had sexual intercourse,
by background characteristics, Vietnam 2005
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Among women who had sexual Among women who ever
intercourse in the past 12 months: had sexual intercourse:
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12 months 1 characteristic
12 months 2 women in lifetime women
Background
Percentage
who had
2+ partners
in the past
Percentage
who had
higher-risk
intercourse
in the past
Number
of
Mean
number of
sexual
partners
Number
of
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Age
15-24 0.0 0.7 609 1.0 623
15-19 0.0 3.9 85 1.0 88
20-24 0.0 0.1 524 1.0 536
25-29 0.0 0.8 764 1.0 799
30-39 0.0 0.2 1,759 1.0 1,862
40-49 0.0 0.3 1,589 1.1 1,810
Education
Never attended school 0.0 0.2 337 1.1 357
Primary 0.1 0.1 1,143 1.1 1,267
Secondary 0.0 0.5 2,851 1.0 3,058
More than secondary 0.0 0.1 390 1.0 412
Marital status
Never married * * 9 * 30
Married/living together 0.0 0.0 4,680 1.0 4,748
Divorced/separated/
widowed (0.0) (23.1) 32 1.1 316
Wealth quintile
Lowest 0.0 0.4 919 1.1 986
Second 0.0 0.1 902 1.0 1,003
Middle 0.0 0.4 942 1.0 1,004
Fourth 0.1 0.3 980 1.0 1,051
Highest 0.0 0.7 977 1.0 1,050
Residence
Urban 0.1 0.3 901 1.0 995
Rural 0.0 0.4 3,820 1.0 4,100
Region
North 0.0 0.3 1,909 1.0 2,028
Central 0.0 0.7 1,159 1.0 1,273
South 0.0 0.2 1,654 1.0 1,793
Targeted provinces
Ha Noi 0.0 0.5 146 1.0 157
Ho Chi Minh City 0.3 0.3 255 1.0 284
Hai Phong 0.0 0.0 107 1.0 118
Quang Ninh 0.2 0.0 67 1.0 74
Total 0.0 0.4 4,721 1.0 5,094
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Note: Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that a
figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.
1
Corresponds to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Prevention Indicator 4 “Percentage
of women and men aged 15-49 who had sex with more than one partner in the last 12 months”
2 Sexual intercourse with a partner who was neither a spouse nor who lived with the respondent.
Corresponds to UNAIDS Sexual Behavior Indicator 1 “Higher-risk sex in the last year.”
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