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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Other wives after marriage (poly2mar)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 13221

Invalid: 148

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 37

End: 37

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If Q2( currmar) = Yes : Now I am going to ask you questions about your current wife (ves)…. If Q2( currmar) = No and Q8(endymar)>0, then skip to Q15. If Q2( currmar) = No and Q8(endymar) = 00, then skip to Q24(poly2mar).

Literal question

Did you marry other wife (ves) during your marriage?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	10178	77%
1	Yes	3043	23%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	54
Sysmiss		94

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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