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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Less of a serious threat (arvhealth)

Data file: css_abs2

Overview

Valid: 7609

Invalid: 11488

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 145

End: 145

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

You have said that you have heard of ARVs. We now want to ask you about your attitudes towards ARV treatment. These questions can be answered by anyone, you don't have to be taking ARVs.
Now I am going to read some statements. After each statement please tell me whether you Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree or Strongly Disagree with this statement or Don't know.

Literal question

Do you agree with this statement?
HIV/AIDS is less of a serious threat to one's health than it used to be because of the new treatments

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Strongly agree	936	12.3%
2	Agree	1235	16.2%
3	Disagree	1786	23.5%
4	Strongly disagree	3409	44.8%
5	Don't know	243	3.2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	20
Sysmiss		11468

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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