Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 46, Chart 1
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Advance Data, no. 225 and no. 243.
More educated persons believe they know more about AIDS than those with less education. Fifty-four percent of those with less than 12 years of education reported that they knew little or nothing about AIDS, yet 72 percent reported they had no chance of getting the disease. However, only 15 percent of those with more than 12 years of education reported knowing little or nothing and 57 percent reported no chance of getting AIDS. More women than men, 84 percent as compared with 64 percent, reported discussing AIDS with their children 10 to 17 years of age.
