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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Total sexual partners (partnum)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 9621

Invalid: 9476

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 112

End: 114

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

-Now I will ask you about the total number of women you have had sex with in your lifetime, including those you married or didn't. Please include women whom you have had sex only once or those you did not want to have sex with.
-To total 60a (sexlstwknum)and 60b(sexlstmonnum), check with participant and record total number in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.
-To total 23a (spouchk)and 23b(othpart),check with participant and record total number in the following versions of the questionnaire; v7 and v8 .

Literal question

How many women have you had sex with in your life, in total (including current wives)?

Categories

Value	Category
998	Unknown
999	Missing

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 partnum=1 woman , go to Q63(condreas) in the following version of the questionnaire; v6.
If partnum=1 woman , go to Q26(partnumlst) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v7 and v8.

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