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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Nov 18, 2025

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Total sexual partners category v2 onwards (partcat)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 522

Invalid: 18575

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 115

End: 115

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

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.
-If participant is unsure read out

Literal question

Is it probably…

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<5	78	14.9%
2	5 to 10	185	35.4%
3	>10	248	47.5%
5	Refused to answer	6	1.1%
8	Unknown	5	1%
9	Missing	26
Sysmiss		18549

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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