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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Marriage ended how (endmar)

Data file: css_abs1spouses

Overview

Valid: 258

Invalid: 16872

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 48

End: 48

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I am going to ask you questions about the husband(s) you have been married to in the past. Among these, please start with the husband whom you divorced /separate from or who died the most recently, and then continue with the one you divorced or who died before him and so on and so on.

Literal question

How did the marriage end?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never married	0	0%
1	Married	0	0%
2	Divorced/separated	203	78.7%
3	Widowed	55	21.3%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	3
Sysmiss		16869

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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