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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Other wives at marriage (poly1mar)

Data file: css_abs1spouses

Overview

Valid: 16998

Invalid: 132

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 34

End: 34

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If Q2(currmar)=Yes : Now I am going to ask you questions about your current husband.... If Q2( currmar) = No and Q6(diedmar)+Q7(divmar)>0 then skip to Q15(datemarmth, datemaryr and agemar). If Q2(currmar) = No and Q6(diedmar)+Q7(divmar)=0, then skip to Q24(mena and agemena ).

Literal question

Did he have any other wives at the time you got married?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	12811	75.4%
1	Yes	4187	24.6%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	12
Sysmiss		120

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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