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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Last time sex with spouse category (lastsexcat)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 7364

Invalid: 6005

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 107

End: 107

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

I will now ask questions about your sexual relations with this (ese) wife (ves) over the last 12 months.

Literal question

When was the LAST TIME you had sex with her?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	None	0	0%
1	Days	3752	51%
2	Weeks	1754	23.8%
3	Months	1854	25.2%
4	Years	0	0%
8	Unknown	4	0.1%
9	Missing	74
Sysmiss		5931

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 =Weeks ,go to Q61b(sexlstmonnum) and if = Months go to Q61c(sexlstyrnum) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.

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