ABS Adult Behavior Survey 2008-2011

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-ABS-2008-v1

Producer(s)

Dr Neil French (Director)

Collections

Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Less anxious about sexual relations (arvanx)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 9838

Invalid: 14442

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 212

End: 212

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

-You have said that you have heard of ARVs. We now want to ask you about your attitudes towards ARV treatment. These questions can be answered by anyone, you don't have to be taking ARVs.
-Now I am going to read some statements. After each statement please tell me whether you Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree or Strongly Disagree with this statement or Don't know.

Literal question

Do you agree with this statement?:
I am less anxious about having sexual relations because of the availability of the new ARV treatments for HIV

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Strongly agree	734	7.5%
2	Agree	1367	13.9%
3	Disagree	2559	26%
4	Strongly disagree	4452	45.3%
5	Don't know	726	7.4%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	17
Sysmiss		14425

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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