ABS Adult Behavior Survey 2008-2011

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-ABS-2008-v1

Producer(s)

Dr Neil French (Director)

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Karonga HDSS

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No. of times sex with partner (pfreqsex)

Data file: css_abs2partners

Overview

Valid: 1990

Invalid: 1236

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 38

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

How many times have you had sex with her?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<5	929	46.7%
2	5 to 10	315	15.8%
3	>10	336	16.9%
4	Had sex once	410	20.6%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	115
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.

Question post text

If Had sex once, go to Q58(pcondlast1-3) in the following version of the questionnaire; v1.
If Had sex once, go to Q70(pcondlast) in the following versions of the questionnaire; v2a,v2b and v2c.
If Had sex once, go to Q93(pcondlast) in the following version of the questionnaire; v3m.
If Had sex once, go to Q92(pcondlast) in the following version of the questionnaire; v3l.

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