PEER has also helped SMOs in designing and interpreting quantitative surveys. In Jamaica, PEER provided a more accurate definition of partner types for the second round of the KAPB survey in 2008. The study found that despite predominant social norms to the contrary, concurrent relationships are an accepted reality in many communities. Different partners were described as fulfilling various emotional, economic and social needs. All these relationships have an important component of exchange:
- Personal man: the primary partnership, he may or may not live with the woman.
- For many women, the baby-father is also their personal man. Women hope for, but often do not receive, support from him.
- The ‘boopsy’ is a man with whom women use the promise of sex to gain money or gifts for themselves and their family. They avoid actually having sex with him, though might occasionally do so to maintain the relationship.
- A sugar daddy is an older man with money. Young women need to maintain good looks and clothes to attract him. They have less control in this relationship: condom use is according to his decision.
- The man pon the side is a regular partner outside the primary relationship and may be primarily sexually motivated. The main rationale for condom use with him is to avoid not knowing who has fathered a pregnancy.
