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

Metadata

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Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 18, 2025

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Partner lives (pres)

Data file: css_abs2partners

Overview

Valid: 2097

Invalid: 1129

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 30

End: 30

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I will ask about women you have had sexual intercourse with in the last 12 months, apart from your wives. Think carefully. It can include girlfriends, women you had sex with once, women you gave money or gifts to for sex or women you did not want to have sex with.

Literal question

Where does she usually live?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Same compound	29	1.4%
2	Outside Karonga	330	15.7%
3	Elsewhere in karonga (specify village)	953	45.4%
4	Same crshse	45	2.1%
5	Same village	709	33.8%
8	Unknown	31	1.5%
9	Missing	8
Sysmiss		1121

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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