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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No. of other partners spouse had (spxtranum)

Data file: css_abs1spouses

Overview

Valid: 2111

Invalid: 15019

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 75

End: 75

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 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

IF YES to [spxtra]: Do you know or believe that HE had sexual relations with other women (incl. spouses) during that time? , how many?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1	1376	65.2%
2	2	433	20.5%
3	>= 2	300	14.2%
8	Unknown	2	0.1%
9	Missing	71
Sysmiss		14948

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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