Secretive females or swaggering males? An assessment of the quality of sexual partnership reporting in rural Tanzania
Soori, Nnko|Ties Boerma,J|Urassa,Mark|Mwaluko,Gabriel|Zaba,Basia / 2002

In population-based surveys on sexual behaviour, men consistently report higher numbers of sexual partners than women, which may be associated with male exaggeration or female underreporting or with issues related to sampling, such as exclusion of female sex workers. This paper presents an analysis of data collected in the context of a longitudinal study in rural Tanzania, where a sexual partnership module was applied to all participating men and women in the study population. Since the study design included all men and women of reproductive ages and did not involve sampling, these data provide a unique opportunity to compare the consistency of aggregate measures of sexual behaviour between men and women living in the same villages.