Malawi 2015-16

Table 16.11 Attitudes toward negotiating safer sexual relations with husband
Percentage of women and men age 15-49 who believe that a woman is justified in refusing to have sexual intercourse with her husband
if she knows that he has sexual intercourse with other women, and percentage who believe that a woman is justified in asking that they
use a condom if she knows that her husband has a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to background characteristics, Malawi
DHS 2015-16
Background
characteristic
Women
Woman is justified in:
Refusing to have
sexual
intercourse with
her husband if
she knows he
has sex with
other women
Asking that they
use a condom if
she knows that
her husband has
an STI
Number of
women
Men
Woman is justified in:
Refusing to have
sexual
intercourse with
her husband if
she knows he
has sex with
other women
Asking that they
use a condom if
she knows that
her husband has
an STI
Number of
men
Age
15-24 66.6 78.3 10,422 72.6 84.6 3,226
15-19 64.8 74.2 5,263 72.8 84.4 1,818
20-24 68.4 82.4 5,159 72.3 84.8 1,408
25-29 67.1 84.6 3,953 75.1 90.1 1,022
30-39 66.0 84.8 6,592 75.1 92.4 1,807
40-49 65.7 81.2 3,596 77.0 90.0 1,073
Marital status
Never married 66.3 75.2 5,170 73.9 85.6 2,863
Ever had sex 71.2 83.0 2,294 74.6 87.7 1,846
Never had sex 62.4 69.0 2,877 72.7 81.8 1,018
Married/living together 66.3 83.0 16,130 74.5 90.1 4,030
Divorced/separated/
widowed 66.7 83.9 3,262 73.5 86.6 235
Residence
Urban 74.5 87.1 4,496 83.4 93.5 1,340
Rural 64.6 80.2 20,066 72.1 87.0 5,788
Region
Northern 62.5 78.2 2,838 61.4 82.4 922
Central 66.9 81.9 10,529 75.1 88.3 3,176
Southern 66.9 81.9 11,194 77.3 89.8 3,030
Education
No education 58.1 75.2 2,977 70.2 80.1 375
Primary 64.4 80.4 15,245 71.6 86.1 4,153
Secondary 73.9 86.3 5,598 77.7 92.4 2,249
More than secondary 83.9 91.0 742 88.3 94.0 351
Wealth quintile
Lowest 60.5 77.8 4,745 72.8 85.4 1,134
Second 65.6 79.7 4,692 72.3 84.7 1,325
Middle 64.3 80.7 4,635 69.9 87.6 1,409
Fourth 67.3 82.0 4,680 72.5 88.2 1,462
Highest 72.7 86.0 5,810 81.4 93.0 1,798
Total 15-49 66.4 81.5 24,562 74.2 88.2 7,128
50-54 na na na 76.4 85.2 350
Total 15-54 na na na 74.3 88.0 7,478
na = Not applicable.
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