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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2nd sex day/week/month etc (per2ndsex)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 2833

Invalid: 16264

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 118

End: 118

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 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.

Literal question

How long was this after you first had sex?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	None	0	0%
1	Days	15	0.5%
2	Weeks	83	2.9%
3	Months	460	16.2%
4	Years	2275	80.3%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		16264

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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