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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Year he was born (yearspmar)

Data file: css_abs1spouses

Overview

Valid: 11066

Invalid: 6064

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 42

End: 45

Width: 4

Range: 1922 - 9999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If Q2(currmar) = Yes : Now I am going to ask you questions about your current husband.... If Q2( currmar) = No and Q6(diedmar)+Q7(divmar)>0 then skip to Q15(datemarmth, datemaryr and agemar). If Q2(currmar) = No and Q6(diedmar)+Q7(divmar)=0, then skip to Q24(mena and agemena ).

Literal question

What year was he born?

Categories

Value	Category
9998	Unknown
9999	Missing

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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