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

Metadata

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Nov 14, 2025

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Spouse had other sexual partners (spxtra)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 5622

Invalid: 7747

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 120

End: 120

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

Do you know or believe that she had sexual relations with other men (incl. spouses) during that time?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	3788	67.4%
1	Yes	94	1.7%
2	Suspected	38	0.7%
3	Refused to answer	1	0%
8	Unknown	1701	30.3%
9	Missing	33
Sysmiss		7714

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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