AIDS Research and Therapy

Table 1 Distribution of respondents who ever heard AIDS by various independent variables

From: Media and education play a tremendous role in mounting AIDS awareness among married couples in Bangladesh

	Female		Male
Variable	No of females	% of females who heard AIDS	Variable	No of males	% of males who heard AIDS
Education*			Education*
No education	4842	12.4	No education	891	20.4
Primary	1928	23.2	Primary	782	25.6
Secondary	1074	35.7	Secondary	590	39.2
Higher	2699	72.0	Higher	293	82.1
Currently working			Respondent Occupation*
Yes	8164	31.3	Didn't work	56	55.4
No	2377	28.9	Prof., tech., mang.	706	72.0
			Agric-self employed	754	36.5
			Agric-employee+manual work	1023	30.6
Husband education*			HH items*
No education	4181	12.9	0–3	854	8.5
Primary incomplete	1471	20.3	4–6	981	29.2
Primary complete	923	28.5	7–12	811	68.5
Secondary+	3952	54.1
Husband Occupation*			HH food consumption*
Didn't work	652	45.4	Deficit in whole yr	450	16.5
Prof., tech., mang.	2933	49.1	Sometimes deficit	720	26.4
Agric-self employed	2509	14.7	Surplus or equal	1386	65.8
Agric-employee +manual work	4449	25.6
HH items*			How often listen radio*
0–3	3399	10.5	Never	1065	37.5
4–6	3571	24.2	Sometimes	837	53.6
7–12	3573	56.6	Every day	651	67.0
HH food consumption*			How often watch TV*
Deficit in whole yr	1735	14.5	Never	954	26.5
Sometimes deficit	4339	22.4	Sometimes	1029	54.0
Surplus or equal	4470	45.3	Every day	571	83.2
How often listen radio*			Area of residence*
Never	6821	21.0	Urban	508	76.4
Sometimes	1962	45.6	Rural	2048	43.8
Every day	1759	52.1
How often watch TV*			NA
Never	6164	12.5
Sometimes	2327	38.5
Every day	2050	77.1
No. of visits by FPFW			NA
0	8465	30.8
1	482	30.3
2+	1596	31.3
No. of visits by HFW			NA
0	8963	31.0
1	486	31.3
2+	1094	29.3
Area of residence*			NA
Urban	2070	64.3
Rural	8473	22.6

*p < 0.001

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