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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Sex last month (sexlsmon)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 3676

Invalid: 15421

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 126

End: 126

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I will ask you about the total number of women you have had sex with in your lifetime, including those you married or didn't. Please include women whom you have had sex only once or those you did not want to have sex with.

Literal question

Have you had sex in the last month?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1370	37.3%
1	Yes	2306	62.7%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	151
Sysmiss		15270

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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