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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Health. 2009 Sep;6(3):195–202. doi: 10.1071/SH08049

Table 4.

Sexual experience with different types of partners in the last year

Male Female

Adults
18–39
Adults
40–49
Adults
50–59
Adults
18–39
Adults
40–49
Adults
50–59
Had a cohabiting partner*** 59.6 86.3 87.0 80.7 81.3 74.7
N 1,847 485 287 1,501 432 356
Frequency of sex with cohabiting
partner***
In last 3 months
  Once a week or more 38.5 54.1 66.3 47.5 65.8 56.5
  Had sex less than once a week 55.7 40.3 15.5 39.0 19.3 3.7
  Not at all 5.8 5.5 18.1 13.5 15.0 39.9
Always use condom with regular
partner***
1.8 0.4 0.7 1.6 3.3 0.0
Had sex with a casual partner 17.6 4.4 2.1 0.6 0.2 0.0
Always used condom with casual
partner**
42.6 28.6 14.2 - - -
Had sex with a sex worker*** 8.7 5.0 1.6 0.1 0.0 0.0
Always used condom with sex worker* 93.9 98.6 66.7 - - -

Note: Data include only respondents who ever had sex with opposite sex partners.

***

p<.01 for males and females.

**

p<.01 for males.

*

p=.06 for males.