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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No. sexual partners in last year range (sexyrcat)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 16

Invalid: 19081

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 133

End: 133

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I will ask about women you have had sexual intercourse with in the last 12 months, apart from your wives. Think carefully. It can include girlfriends, women you had sex with once, women you gave money or gifts for sex or women you did not want to have sex with.

Literal question

How many women [apart from wives] have you had sex with in the past twelve months?(Range)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<5	14	87.5%
2	5 to 10	2	12.5%
3	>10	0	0%
5	Refused to answer	0	0%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	95
Sysmiss		18986

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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