gender country profile
- Cambodia 2005 DHS

Gender data may not match individual country reports exactly as data have been standardized for comparative purposes.

Note: Please roll over asterisks (*) to see notes.

  Women Men Notes
Do women and men have equal access to education and information?
Women and men age 15-49 who cannot read (%) 30.5 u  
Women and men age 20-24 who have attended secondary or higher education (%) 27.9 48.7 (*)
Women and men age 15-49 who are not regularly exposed to any media (TV, radio, or newspaper) at least once a week (%) 21.1 18.0  
 
  Women Men Notes
Do women and men have equal opportunities for employment?
Women and men age 15-49 who were employed in the 12 months before the survey (%) 78.8 83.8  
And, among those who were employed in the 12 months before the survey:
Women and men age 15-49 earning cash (cash only or cash and in-kind) (%) 57.4 u  
Women and men 15-49 employed in professional, technical, or managerial occupations (%) 2.7 5  
Women and men 15-49 employed in all non-agricultural occupations (%) 40.0 36.3  
Percent of currently married women age 15-49 who do not have control over their own earnings (among those employed for cash) u u  
 
  Women Men Notes
Do women make decisions in households?
Households headed by women or men (%) 23.5 76.5  
Currently married women 15-49 who alone or jointly have the final say in the following decisions, and currently married men who say that a wife should have the greater say alone or have an equal say with husband:
own health care (%) 90.2 u  
making large purchases (%) 59.2 u  
making daily purchases (%) 72.2 u  
visits to friends or relatives (%) 80.6 u  
none of these decisions (%) u u  
 
  Women Men Notes
How do marriage and fertility patterns differ between women and men?
Women and men age 20-49 who were married by age 18 (%) 24.8 8.6  
Women and men age 20-49 who had sexual intercourse by age 15 (%) 1.8 0.3  
Total fertility rate: average number of births per woman 3.4 na  
Women age 15-19 who have begun childbearing (%) 7.8 na  
Mean ideal number of children among women and men age 15-49 3.3 u  
Currently married women age 15-49 currently using a modern method of contraception (%) and currently married men who used a method with their last partner (%) 27.2 u  
 
  Women Men Notes
Are children treated differently based on their gender?
Primary school age children (6-11 years) that are attending primary school (%) 78.2 76.4  
Secondary school age children (12-17 years) that are attending secondary school (%) 26.7 29.9  
 
  Women Men Notes
Does society justify wife beating?
Women and men age 15-49 who agree that a husband is justified in beating his wife if:
she burns the food (%) u u  
she argues with him (%) 26.8 u  
she goes out without telling him (%) 34.8 u  
she neglects the children (%) 45.0 u  
she refuses to have sex with him (%) 13.3 u  
at least one of these reasons (%) u u  
 
  Women Men Notes
Do women and men experience physical or sexual violence?
Women and men age 15-49 who have experienced physical violence by anyone:
since age 15 (%) 22.3 u  
in the past 12 months (%) 10.3 u  
Women and men age 15-49 who have ever experienced sexual violence by anyone (%) u u  
Ever-married women and men age 15-49 who have experienced physical or sexual violence by their spouse or partner:
ever (%) 13.7 u  
in the last 12 months (%) 8.7 u  
 
  Women Men Notes
Do women and men have the knowledge and empowerment necessary to reduce their risk of contracting HIV?
Women and men age 15-49 who know that the risk of contracting HIV can be reduced by:
using condoms (%) 87.4 91.1  
limiting sex to one uninfected faithful partner (%) 86.3 90.9  
Women and men age 15-49 who know that a healthy-looking person can have HIV (%) 68.6 59.6  
Women and men age 15-49 who had sex with more than one partner in the 12 months preceding the survey among those who had sex during the period (%) 0.3 9.5  
Mean lifetime number of sexual partners among those who have ever had sex 1.1 4.5  
Women and men age 15-49 who were tested and received results from an HIV test takenin the 12 months before the survey (%) 3.2 5.1  
 
  Women Men Notes
Does HIV affect women disproportionately?
Women and men age 15-49 who tested HIV-positive (%) 0.6 0.6  
 


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