Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and gendered indicators of adults age 15–49 years in the Dominican Republic by gender (DHS 2007)
| Men n = 24,106 (47.4 %) | Women n = 26,912 (52.5 %) | Total N = 51,018 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years)*** | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| 15–19 | 5676 | 23.5 | 5778 | 21.5 | 11,452 | 21.5 |
| 20–24 | 4034 | 16.7 | 4303 | 16.0 | 8337 | 16.5 |
| 25–29 | 3462 | 14.4 | 3873 | 14.4 | 7335 | 14.9 |
| 30–34 | 2960 | 12.3 | 3707 | 13.8 | 6667 | 13.5 |
| 35–40 | 2817 | 11.7 | 3535 | 13.1 | 6352 | 12.6 |
| 41–44 | 2786 | 11.6 | 3140 | 11.7 | 5926 | 11.5 |
| 45–49 | 2371 | 9.8 | 2576 | 9.6 | 4947 | 9.6 |
| Ever married*** | ||||||
| Never | 10,003 | 40.9 | 6176 | 24.9 | 16,179 | 32.0 |
| Currently | 10,940 | 45.7 | 15,687 | 56.6 | 26,627 | 51.5 |
| Formerly | 3163 | 13.4 | 5049 | 19.4 | 8212 | 16.5 |
| Highest level of education completed*** | ||||||
| None | 1180 | 4.9 | 1184 | 4.4 | 2364 | 3.3 |
| Primary | 11,545 | 47.9 | 10,992 | 40.8 | 22,537 | 40.3 |
| Secondary | 8706 | 36.1 | 10,132 | 37.6 | 18,838 | 38.9 |
| Higher | 2675 | 11.1 | 4604 | 17.1 | 7279 | 17.5 |
| Wealth*** | ||||||
| Poorest | 7674 | 20.9 | 6553 | 15.4 | 14,227 | 18.0 |
| Poorer | 5206 | 19.7 | 5874 | 19.2 | 11,077 | 19.5 |
| Middle | 4541 | 20.1 | 5669 | 21.1 | 10,210 | 20.6 |
| Richer | 3858 | 20.3 | 4907 | 21.8 | 8765 | 21.1 |
| Richest | 2830 | 19.0 | 3909 | 22.5 | 6739 | 20.8 |
| Area of Residence | ||||||
| Capital/large city | 1899 | 30.4 | 2348 | 31.5 | 4236 | 31.0 |
| Small city | 4725 | 21.2 | 5806 | 22.6 | 10,452 | 21.9 |
| Town | 7255 | 18.2 | 8222 | 17.8 | 15,348 | 18.0 |
| Countryside | 10,564 | 30.3 | 10,819 | 28.0 | 20,982 | 29.1 |
| Head of household*** | ||||||
| Male | 18,052 | 74.9 | 17,070 | 63.4 | 35,122 | 67.5 |
| Female | 6054 | 25.1 | 9842 | 36.6 | 15,896 | 32.5 |
| Access to media*** | ||||||
| Limited | 4030 | 16.7 | 5637 | 20.9 | 9667 | 16.4 |
| Fair | 3071 | 12.7 | 2901 | 10.8 | 5972 | 11.5 |
| Good | 16,987 | 70.5 | 18,347 | 68.2 | 35,334 | 72.1 |
| Missing data | 18 | 0.1 | 27 | 0.1 | 45 | 0.0 |
| Abstinence until marriagea*** | ||||||
| Not acceptable for men or women | 5488 | 22.8 | 2937 | 10.9 | 8425 | 16.9 |
| Acceptable for men, not for women | 873 | 3.6 | 757 | 2.8 | 1630 | 3.1 |
| Acceptable for women, not for men | 6853 | 28.4 | 6577 | 24.4 | 13,430 | 26.9 |
| Acceptable for both men and women | 10,892 | 45.2 | 16,641 | 61.8 | 27,533 | 53.1 |
| Sexual exclusivenessb*** | ||||||
| Not acceptable for men or women | 3680 | 13.6 | 1677 | 6.0 | 5357 | 9.6 |
| Acceptable for men, not for women | 1984 | 7.7 | 1208 | 4.2 | 3192 | 5.9 |
| Acceptable for women, not for men | 3264 | 12.1 | 2138 | 7.6 | 5402 | 9.7 |
| Acceptable for both men and women | 15,178 | 66.6 | 21,889 | 82.2 | 37,067 | 74.8 |
| Women’s sexual submissivenessc** | ||||||
| Disagree | 23,325 | 97.1 | 26,151 | 97.2 | 49,476 | 97.4 |
| Agree | 631 | 2.2 | 575 | 1.7 | 1206 | 1.9 |
| Do not know/No response | 150 | 0.6 | 186 | 0.6 | 336 | 0.6 |
DHS Demographic and Health Surveys. aAbstinence until marriage: participants’ opinion on whether young men/women should wait until marriage to initiate sexual activity. bSexual exclusiveness: participants’ opinion on whether sexually active unmarried men/women should have sex with only one sexual partner. cRespondents’ answers to the statement that a wife is not justified in asking her husband to use a condom if she knows he has a sexually transmitted disease
*P < 0.10; ** P < 0.05; *** P < 0.001