ABS Adult Behavior Survey 2008-2011

Malawi

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MWI-MEIRU-ABS-2008-v1

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Dr Neil French (Director)

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Karonga HDSS

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What relationship was this child from v3 onwards (molaschi)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 5892

Invalid: 13205

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 85

End: 85

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was this child from:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A current wife	5138	87.2%
2	A past marriage that ended in the past 12 moths	323	5.5%
3	A past Marriage	330	5.6%
4	A past relationship	101	1.7%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	113
Sysmiss		13092

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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