ABS Adult Behavior Survey 2008-2011

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-ABS-2008-v1

Producer(s)

Dr Neil French (Director)

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Karonga HDSS

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No. of times sex with partner (pfreqsex)

Data file: css_abs1partners

Overview

Valid: 607

Invalid: 379

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 38

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I will ask about men you have had sexual intercourse with in the last 12 months, apart from your husband(s). Think carefully. It can include boyfriends, men you had sex with once, men who gave you money or gifts for sex, or men you did not want to have sex with or who forced you to have sex.

Literal question

How many times have you had sex with him?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<5	210	34.6%
2	5 to 10	92	15.2%
3	>10	217	35.7%
4	Had sex once	88	14.5%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	32
Sysmiss		347

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.

Question post text

If Had sex once, go to Q58(pcondlast1,pcondlast2 and pcondlast3) in the following version of the questionnaire; v1.
If Had sex once, go to Q70(pcondlast) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v2a,v2b and v2c.
If Had sex once, go to Q100(pcondlast) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v3m and v3l.
If Had sex once, go to Q109(pcondlast) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.

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