Behavioural Surveillance Surveys - The Wisdom of Whores

FHI 2000 HIV/AIDS/STD BEHAVIORAL SURVEILLANCE SURVEY (BSS) FOR IDUs
Section 5: Sexual history: numbers and types of partners
No. Questions and filters Coding categories Skip to
Q501 Have you ever had sexual intercourse? YES 1
NO 2 → Q903
[For the purposes of this survey, NO RESPONSE 9
“sexual intercourse,” is defined as
vaginal or anal sex.]
Q502
At what age did you first have sexual
intercourse?
AGE IN YEARS [__|__]
DON’T KNOW 88
NO RESPONSE 99
Q503 Have you had sexual intercourse in YES 1
the last 12 months? NO 2 → Q902
NO RESPONSE 9
Q504
For WOMEN:
Think about the male sexual partners
you’ve had in the last 12 months.
For MEN:
Think about the female sexual partners
you’ve had in the last 12 months.
In total, how many different sexual
TOTAL [__|__]
partners have you had in the last DON’T KNOW 88
12 months? NO RESPONSE 99
Among these partners that you have
had in the last 12 months,
how many were:
- Your spouse(s) or live-in sexual REGULAR [__|__]
partners (“regular” partners) DON’T KNOW 88
NO RESPONSE 99
- “Commercial” (partners with whom COMMERCIAL [__|__]
you bought or sold sex in exchange DON’T KNOW 88
for money or drugs) NO RESPONSE 99
- Sexual partners you that you are not NON-REGULAR [__|__]
married to and have never lived with DON’T KNOW 88
and did not have sex in exchange NO RESPONSE 99
for money (“non-regular”
partners) - DO NOT INCLUDE
CURRENT SPOUSE(S) OR LIVE-IN
SEXUAL PARTNERS)
B EHAV I OR A L S U R V EI L L A NC E SURV EY S APPEN DI X 1
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