No toying with sex or religion
Livein relationships and sex toys are frowned upon by a majority of young Indians. Many of them do not have friends from other religious communities and others look askance at intercaste marriages
Don’t approve of couples in live-in relationships before marriage Are against inter-caste marriages Don’t believe a boy and girl, even if they are in love, can have sex before marriage Don’t think husband should help in the kitchen if wife works Will not jump to any conclusions about a boy and girl alone in a restaurant 95% respondents in Bhubaneswar and 91.7% in Kochi don’t approve of live-in relationships Don’t think sex toys should be easily available in markets Don’t believe in having good friends from a religion apart from theirs
Want to get married with religious rituals Don’t think drinking age should be the same as voting age Will marry a person selected by parents if they have no objections to the person Are ok with not having a male child when they have children
Have good friends of the opposite sex In Indore and Jaipur most likely to see a girl and boy together as “just friends” Women likely to be more easy with couples dating openly The Hindustan Times-mars Monitoring and Research Systems India Youth Survey 2017 was carried out in 16 state capitals and major towns in India, including Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, and Chandigarh in the north; Kolkata, Patna, Bhubaneswar and Ranchi in the east; Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune and Indore in the West, and Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kochi in the south.
Target respondents were both male and female aged between 18 to 25. The total sample size was 5,700 and respondents were undergraduate/postgraduate students or employed. They were regular users of mobile phones and the internet and were active on social networking sites. Think watching any kind of pornographic content is wrong For more data, interactive graphics, videos and opinion polls, log on to: www.hindustantimes.com/ youthsurvey/