Characteristic | Category | Men (n=2850)* | Women (n=4640)† | Women with one lifetime partner (n=1317)‡ | |||
n | Weighted % | n | Weighted % | n | Weighted % | ||
Age (years) | 15–19 | 261 | 9.8 | 374 | 9.2 | 226 | 18.0 |
20–24 | 672 | 21.9 | 941 | 20.4 | 331 | 24.9 | |
25–29 | 542 | 20.6 | 904 | 20.2 | 212 | 16.7 | |
30–34 | 428 | 15.8 | 697 | 15.8 | 134 | 9.6 | |
35–39 | 374 | 14.0 | 638 | 13.9 | 138 | 10.9 | |
40–44 | 305 | 10.3 | 535 | 10.7 | 134 | 9.9 | |
45–49 | 268 | 7.5 | 551 | 9.8 | 142 | 10.0 | |
Relationship status | Legally married | 176 | 7.0 | 604 | 14.3 | 247 | 22.0 |
Living together like husband and wife | 60 | 2.4 | 157 | 3.1 | 39 | 2.0 | |
Divorced | 4 | 0.1 | 14 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.1 | |
Separated, but still legally married | 3 | 0.2 | 9 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | |
Widowed | 6 | 0.3 | 55 | 0.9 | 18 | 0.9 | |
Single, but have been living with someone as husband/wife before | 124 | 3.5 | 210 | 3.6 | 45 | 2.8 | |
Single and never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before | 2477 | 86.4 | 3591 | 77.7 | 965 | 72.2 | |
Education | No schooling/creche/preprimary | 90 | 2.3 | 172 | 2.5 | 27 | 1.6 |
Primary (grades 1–7) | 189 | 6.5 | 278 | 5.6 | 85 | 5.1 | |
Incomplete secondary (grades 8–11/National Technical Certificate (NTC) 1 or 2) | 1177 | 44.2 | 1911 | 42.7 | 530 | 43.0 | |
Completed secondary (grade 12/NTC3) | 1211 | 41.0 | 2008 | 43.3 | 588 | 43.8 | |
Tertiary (diploma/degree) | 182 | 6.0 | 269 | 5.9 | 87 | 6.5 | |
No response | 1 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total household monthly income§ | No income | 427 | 12.3 | 549 | 9.2 | 126 | 8.0 |
R1–R500 | 232 | 5.8 | 469 | 7.0 | 109 | 5.7 | |
R501–R2500 | 1170 | 40.2 | 2042 | 43.7 | 583 | 43.9 | |
R2501–R6000 | 578 | 24.8 | 877 | 23.6 | 293 | 26.3 | |
R6001–R16 000 | 180 | 8.7 | 271 | 7.7 | 85 | 8.0 | |
R16 001 or more | 27 | 1.0 | 54 | 1.5 | 18 | 1.5 | |
No response | 236 | 7.1 | 378 | 7.2 | 103 | 6.6 | |
Age difference of most recent partner | Partner younger or within 5 years of the same age | 2732 | 96.5 | 2899 | 65.3 | 836 | 66.4 |
Partner 5 years or older | 112 | 3.5 | 1732 | 34.7 | 480 | 33.6 | |
No response | 6 | 0.0 | 9 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | |
Lifetime sex partner, n | 1 | 419 | 15.3 | 1317 | 31.7 | 1317 | 100.00 |
2 | 340 | 12.3 | 985 | 22.1 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | 338 | 12.0 | 770 | 17.9 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | 264 | 9.7 | 401 | 8.9 | 0 | 0 | |
5+ | 1009 | 39.0 | 493 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | |
Missing | 480 | 11.7 | 674 | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | |
Had sex in the past 12 months | Yes | 2353 | 84.0 | 3786 | 83.4 | 1056 | 80.7 |
No | 497 | 16.0 | 854 | 16.6 | 261 | 19.3 | |
Used condom with most recent partner | Always | 644 | 24.0 | 886 | 19.6 | 247 | 18.5 |
Sometimes | 1554 | 51.0 | 2574 | 53.5 | 629 | 46.1 | |
Never | 652 | 25.0 | 1180 | 26.9 | 441 | 35.4 | |
Age at sexual debut | Less than 13 years old | 41 | 1.3 | 11 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.1 |
Between 13 and 15 years old | 365 | 14.0 | 296 | 6.9 | 65 | 4.8 | |
Between 16 and 20 years old | 1171 | 45.2 | 2248 | 53.4 | 702 | 57.8 | |
Between 21 and 29 years old | 128 | 5.5 | 430 | 10.7 | 188 | 15.3 | |
30 years old or greater | 9 | 0.4 | 9 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.4 | |
Missing | 1136 | 33.6 | 1646 | 28.6 | 354 | 21.6 | |
How many of your partners from the last 12 months do you suspect were HIV positive? | All positive | 202 | 6.6 | 482 | 10.2 | 222 | 16.9 |
Some positive | 362 | 12.2 | 636 | 13.2 | 55 | 3.4 | |
None known to be positive | 1789 | 65.2 | 2668 | 60.1 | 779 | 60.4 | |
No response | 497 | 16.0 | 854 | 16.6 | 261 | 19.3 | |
Have sex after drinking | Always | 43 | 1.7 | 17 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.3 |
Sometimes | 874 | 29.4 | 232 | 4.2 | 37 | 2.3 | |
Never | 430 | 16.3 | 254 | 5.3 | 58 | 4.5 | |
Don’t drink | 1503 | 52.6 | 4137 | 90.2 | 1217 | 92.8 | |
Male circumcision status (men) | Medical circumcision | 830 | 29.2 | ||||
Traditional circumcision | 131 | 4.0 | |||||
Don’t know | 6 | 0.2 | |||||
Uncircumcised | 1883 | 66.5 | |||||
Circumcision status of most recent partner (women) | Uncircumcised | 3012 | 64.9 | 793 | 60.0 | ||
Circumcised | 1628 | 35.1 | 524 | 40.0 | |||
Circumcision status of all women’s partners for which information was provided (maximum 3) | At least one uncircumcised partner reported | 3118 | 67.6 | 793 | 60.5 | ||
All circumcised | 1522 | 32.4 | 524 | 39.5 |
*Includes men who reported a circumcision status and reported being sexually active.
†Includes women who report having had sex and have reported data on circumcision status for every one of their reported partners.
‡Includes women who report having had sex, report having had only one lifetime partner and have reported a circumcision status for this partner.
§$1=11.9 South African rand.