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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Sex with partner in past 12 months (sexlstyr)

Data file: css_abs1spouses

Overview

Valid: 9683

Invalid: 7447

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 60

End: 60

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

I will now ask questions about your sexual relations with your husband over the last 12 months.

Literal question

Have you had sex with him in the past 12 months?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	644	6.7%
1	Yes	9039	93.3%
2	Refused	0	0%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	70
Sysmiss		7377

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

THE FOLLOWING APPLY ONLY IF THE VARIABLE(sexlstyr) IS FROM THE SECTION FOR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH CURRENT HUSBAND(S)
If No, go to Q70(condlst) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.
If No, go to Q41(rxtra) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v1,v2a,v2b and v2c.
If No, go to Q71(rxtra) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v3l and v3m.

THE FOLLOWING APPLY ONLY IF THE VARIABLE(sexlstyr) IS FROM THE SECTION FOR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH EX-HUSBAND(S)
If No, go to Q82(condlst) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.
If No, go to QQ53(rxtra) in the following versions of the questionnaire;v2a,v2b and v2c.
If No, go to Q83(rxtra) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v3m and v3l.

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