Table 2. Age-standardized prevalence of using female sex work among Indian men reporting any non-regular partner in the past year, by region and marital status, 2006.
| Unmarried, married or previously married men | Unmarried men | Married men | PR for unmarried vs married men | |||||||
| ≥1 FSW | ≥1 FSW | ≥1 FSW | ||||||||
| N | n | (%)a | N | n | (%)a | N | n | (%)a | ||
| India b | ||||||||||
| 15–24 yrs | 1630 | 384 | (22.0) | 1486 | 336 | (21.1) | 138 | 44 | (29.6) | |
| 25–34 yrs | 1135 | 443 | (37.7) | 459 | 141 | (29.4) | 656 | 289 | (41.7) | |
| 35–49 yrs | 658 | 311 | (46.2) | 39 | 17 | (42.0) | 580 | 271 | (45.4) | |
| Total c | 3423 | 1138 | (30.8) | 1984 | 494 | (27.2) | 1374 | 604 | (35.9) | 0.8 |
| (95% CI) | (29.2–32.5) | (23.7–30.9) | (31.5–40.6) | |||||||
| High-HIV states | ||||||||||
| 15–24 yrs | 312 | 96 | (30.7) | 277 | 78 | (28.1) | 34 | 17 | (50.0) | |
| 25–34 yrs | 302 | 162 | (54.6) | 83 | 40 | (48.8) | 215 | 119 | (56.5) | |
| 35–49 yrs | 199 | 103 | (52.7) | 5 | 2 | (33.6) | 174 | 86 | (50.9) | |
| Total c | 813 | 361 | (41.5) | 365 | 120 | (35.1) | 423 | 222 | (52.0) | 0.7 |
| (95% CI) | (38.1–45.0) | (27.4–43.7) | (42.7–61.2) | |||||||
| Low-HIV states | ||||||||||
| 15–24 yrs | 1318 | 288 | (20.0) | 1209 | 258 | (19.5) | 104 | 27 | (23.0) | |
| 25–34 yrs | 833 | 281 | (31.4) | 376 | 101 | (24.8) | 441 | 170 | (34.7) | |
| 35–49 yrs | 459 | 208 | (43.3) | 34 | 15 | (43.6) | 406 | 185 | (43.0) | |
| Total c | 2610 | 777 | (27.4) | 1619 | 374 | (25.3) | 951 | 382 | (29.9) | 0.8 |
| (95% CI) | (25.5–29.3) | (21.5–29.4) | (25.2–35.1) | |||||||
| PR for high-HIV vs low-HIV states | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.7 | |||||||
PR = prevalence ratio; FSW = female sex worker; CI = confidence interval.
a
Percentages are sample-weighted.
b
Excludes the northeastern states.
c
Total percentages and 95% CIs are sample-weighted and standardized to the age distribution of all 3423 men in the study sample reporting any non-regular partner in the past year.