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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More willing to take sexual risks v1 only (arvsexrisk)

Data file: css_abs1

Overview

Valid: 1425

Invalid: 22855

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 213

End: 213

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?:
The new ARV treatments make me more willing to take sexual risks.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Strongly agree	160	11.2%
2	Agree	163	11.4%
3	Disagree	390	27.4%
4	Strongly disagree	403	28.3%
5	Don't know	309	21.7%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	9
Sysmiss		22846

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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