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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At the time she become pregnant with last child or in the current pregnancy,w (wantpre)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 4667

Invalid: 8702

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 76

End: 76

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 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

At the time your wife became pregnant with your last child (born in the last 3 years) or the current pregnancy you fathered, did you

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Want to became pregnant	3928	84.2%
2	Want to wait until later	638	13.7%
3	Want no (more) children at all?	101	2.2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	101
Sysmiss		8601

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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