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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What consequence v3 onwards (reascon)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 6924

Invalid: 17356

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 159

End: 160

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Only ONE option

Literal question

If YES to [conseq]: If you have a child in the next year, will there be serious consequences? , which consequence?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Financial	1836	26.5%
2	Woman's health	2400	34.7%
3	Children's health	1243	18%
5	Own education	1090	15.7%
6	Children's education	43	0.6%
9	Marital stability/instability	231	3.3%
98	Unknown	81	1.2%
99	Missing	66
Sysmiss		17290

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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