Demographic and Health Surveys Methodology - Measure DHS

HIV/AIDS/STDSHIV/AIDS PREVENTION KNOWLEDGEStatistics: Percent Distribution of Women, by Knowledge of Programmatically Ways toAvoid HIV/AIDS, and Percentage Who Know Two Specific WaysDefinitionA. Coverage: All women.B. Numerators:1. Numbers of women distributed according to knowledge of number of ways to avoidHIV/AIDS.2. Number of women who declared that using condoms prevent them from getting HIV/AIDS.3. Number of women who declared that limiting the number of sexual partners prevent fromgetting HIV/AIDS.C. Denominator: Number of women in the sample.CalculationA. The programmatically important ways to determine the knowledge of number of ways to avoidHIV/AIDS are: abstaining from sex, using condoms, and limiting the number of sexual partners.Abstinence from sex is measured from spontaneous response only. Using condoms and limitingthe number of sexual partners is measured from spontaneous and probed responses.B. Women who have not heard of HIV/AIDS or that do not know of the three programmaticallyways to avoid HIV/AIDS are classified are knowing no way to avoid HIV/AIDS.Handling of Missing ValuesWomen with missing values for knowledge of HIV/AIDS are included in separate categories in thedistribution of number of ways. Women with missing values in the knowledge for ways to avoid AIDSare considered as not knowing any source.Notes and ConsiderationsThe percent distribution adds up to 100 percent.Guide to DHS Statistics 150 Updated September 2006