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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Partner had other sexual partners (ppxtra)

Data file: css_abs2partners

Overview

Valid: 2091

Invalid: 1135

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 50

End: 50

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 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 to for sex or women you did not want to have sex with.

Literal question

During that time, did YOUR PARTNER have other sexual partners (incl husbands)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	748	35.8%
1	Yes	328	15.7%
2	Suspected	69	3.3%
3	Refused to answer	0	0%
8	Unknown	946	45.2%
9	Missing	14
Sysmiss		1121

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.

Question post text

If No or Unknown , go to Q64(ppdisc1-3) in the following version of the questionnaire; v1.
If No or Unknown , go to Q77(pmar) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v2a,v2b and v2c.

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