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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Nov 14, 2025

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Make people less infectious (arvinfect)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 9831

Invalid: 14449

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 211

End: 211

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

-You have said that you have heard of ARVs. We now want to ask you about your attitudes towards ARV treatment. These questions can be answered by anyone, you don't have to be taking ARVs.
-Now I am going to read some statements. After each statement please tell me whether you Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree or Strongly Disagree with this statement or Don't know.

Literal question

Do you agree with this statement?
I believe that new drug therapies (ARV treatment) make people with HIV less infectious

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Strongly agree	773	7.9%
2	Agree	1146	11.7%
3	Disagree	2381	24.2%
4	Strongly disagree	3582	36.4%
5	Don't know	1949	19.8%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	24
Sysmiss		14425

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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