ABS Adult Behavior Survey 2008-2011

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-ABS-2008-v1

Producer(s)

Dr Neil French (Director)

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Karonga HDSS

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In month you became pregnant with last child or in your current pregnancy (contra)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 8256

Invalid: 16024

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 126

End: 126

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Today date is the 20th of November 2010. If she had a child in October 2009 we DO NOT ask this question, if she had it in November 2009 we DO.
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Literal question

In the month that you became pregnant with your last child (born in the last 3 years) or in your current pregnancy were you using a method of contraception?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	6466	78.3%
1	Yes	1790	21.7%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	181
Sysmiss		15843

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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