Patterns of knowledge and condom use among population groups: results from the 2005 Ethiopian behavioral surveillance surveys on HIV

Table 2 Characteristics of the study populations, behavioral surveys on HIV, Ethiopia, 2005 (N = 14,524)

Target groups	Number	Percent
Teachers	696	4.79
Population of Ante natal care catchments areas	5,207	35.85
Long distance truck drivers	600	4.13
Intercity bus drivers	600	4.13
Pastoralists	1,608	11.07
Road construction workers	1,623	11.17
Female sex workers	1,398	9.63
Police force	1,071	7.37
Defense forces	1,305	8.99
Factory workers	416	2.86
Age of respondents
15 – 24	5,383	38.03
25–34	5,272	37.25
35–59	3,498	24.72
Education
Non literate	4,257	30.28
Primary education	4,521	32.16
Secondary and above	5,279	37.55
Sex of respondents
Female	5,276	36.33
Male	9,246	63.67
Programmatically important preventive methods (a)
Knows none	1,469	10.11
Knows one	1,312	9.03
Knows two	3,440	23.68
Knows three	8,303	57.17
Misconceptions to common three (b)
Have at least one misconception	10,925	75.22
No misconception	3,599	24.78
misconceptions to six questions
No misconception	3,013	20.74
Have misconception_one	2,924	20.13
Have misconcpetion_more than one	8,587	59.12
Comprehensive knowledge (a+b)
No comprehensive knowledge	11,837	81.5
Has comprehensive knowledge	2,687	18.5
Condom use last sex with paid/paying partner (n = 2,103)
Did not use condom	67	3.19
Used condom	2,036	96.81
Consistent condom use with paid partner (n = 2103)
Did not use condom	210	9.99
Used condom	1,893	90.01
Condom use with non regular partner (n = 668)
Did not use condom	162	24.25
Used condom	506	75.75
Consistent condom use with non regular partner (n = 668)
Did not use condom	221	33.08
Used condom	447	66.92

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