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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Sex with spouse/boyfriend (eversexsbe)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 1948

Invalid: 17149

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 94

End: 94

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I would like to ask you questions about your sexual activity. I know you may feel embarrassed about discussing this, but let me assure you that everything you tell us will be kept strictly confidential.

Literal question

You haven't even had sex with a spouse or a girlfriend, or someone you expected to marry?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1575	80.9%
1	Yes	373	19.1%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	4
Sysmiss		17145

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

If Yes , go to Q29(age1stsex) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v1,v2a,v2b and v2c.
If Yes , go to Q51(age1stsex) in the following version of the questionnaire; v3l.
If Yes , go to Q52(age1stsex) in the following version of the questionnaire; v3m.
If Yes , go to Q54(rxtranum) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.

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