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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Last time sex with spouse category (lastsexcat)

Data file: css_abs1spouses

Overview

Valid: 8928

Invalid: 8202

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 61

End: 61

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

When was the LAST TIME you had sex with him?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	None	0	0%
1	Days	4395	49.2%
2	Weeks	2205	24.7%
3	Months	2320	26%
4	Years	0	0%
8	Unknown	8	0.1%
9	Missing	115
Sysmiss		8087

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 Weeks, go to Q66b(sexlstmonnum) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.
If Months , go to Q66c(sexlstyrnum) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.

THE FOLLOWING APPLY ONLY IF THE VARIABLE(sexlstyr) IS FROM THE SECTION FOR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH EX-HUSBAND(S)
If Weeks, go to Q79b(sexlstmonnum) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.
If Months, go to Q79c(sexlstyrnum) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.

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