Table 1.

Respondents’ characteristics and HIV transmission knowledge

Characteristics	n	Mean (SD)/%
Women’s age	508	23.35 (±5.19)
Women’s partner age	507	28.66 (±7.95)
Number of children ever born	427	2.99 (±1.98)
Women’s educational status
Received no education	119	23.43
Received some formal education	131	25.79
Received madrasah education*	258	50.79
Women’s work engagement outside household
Only household work	383	75.39
Engaged additional work with household work	125	24.61
Partner’s education
Received no education	274	53.94
Received some formal education	166	32.68
Received madrasah education*	68	13.39
Partner’s working status
Unemployed	92	18.11
Day labourer	236	46.46
Other jobs†	180	35.43
Women’s knowledge of HIV transmission
Relatively good knowledge‡	153	30.12
Relatively poor knowledge§	355	69.88

*Had gone to mosque/relevant institutions mainly for religious education.

†Included all forms of voluntary jobs and services.

‡Accurately answered at least four of the nine questions.

§Accurately answered fewer than four of the nine questions.