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 of a serious threat (arvhealth)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 9839

Invalid: 14441

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 214

End: 214

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?
HIV/AIDS is less of a serious threat to one's health than it used to be because of the new treatments

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Strongly agree	1388	14.1%
2	Agree	1812	18.4%
3	Disagree	2083	21.2%
4	Strongly disagree	4140	42.1%
5	Don't know	416	4.2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	16
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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