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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How long would you like to wait v3 onwards (waitano)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 8793

Invalid: 15487

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 153

End: 153

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If YES to [anymo]: Do you want to have any (more) children any time in the future?, How long would you like to wait before having another child?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Within this year	907	10.3%
2	1-2 yrs	1128	12.8%
3	2 -3 yrs	1909	21.7%
4	3+ yrs	3659	41.6%
8	Unsure/Unknown	1190	13.5%
9	Missing	77
Sysmiss		15410

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 Within this year , go to Q52(dischus and huswait) in the following versions of the questionnaire ;v3l and v3m.
If Within this year , go to Q44(dischus and huswait) in the following versions of the questionnaire ;v4 , v4b and v5.
If Within this year , go to Q48(dischus and huswait) in the following version of the questionnaire ;v6.
If Within this year , go to Q46(dischus and huswait) in the following versions of the questionnaire ;v7 , v7b and v8.

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