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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Currently using contraception v3 onwards (avoidprc)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 17487

Invalid: 6793

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 135

End: 135

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Today date is the 20th of November 2010. If she had a child in October 2009 we DO NOT ask this question, if she had it in November 2009 we DO.
Check Q2(currmar)

Literal question

Are you currently using any method to avoid getting pregnant?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	11331	64.8%
1	Yes	6156	35.2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	712
Sysmiss		6081

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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