ABS Adult Behavior Survey 2008-2011

Malawi

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MWI-MEIRU-ABS-2008-v1

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Dr Neil French (Director)

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Karonga HDSS

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At the time you become pregnant with last child or in the current pregnancy (wantpre)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 8240

Invalid: 16040

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 129

End: 129

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 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.
Check Q2(currmar)

Literal question

At the time you become pregnant with your last child (born in the last 3 years) or in the current pregnancy, did you :

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Want to became pregnant	5615	68.1%
2	Want to wait until later	2351	28.5%
3	Want no (more) children at all?	274	3.3%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	197
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.

Question post text

If Want to became pregnant ,go to Q44(wanthis) in in the following versions of the questionnaire;v3l and v3m.
If Want to became pregnant ,go to Q36(wanthis) in in the following versions of the questionnaire;v4 ,v4b and v5.
If Want to became pregnant ,go to 45(anymo) in in the following version of the questionnaire;v6.

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