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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Was your partner married (v2 onwards) (pmar)

Data file: css_abs2partners

Overview

Valid: 1753

Invalid: 1473

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 52

End: 52

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 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

Was YOUR PARTNER married at any time during your relationship?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1527	87.1%
1	Yes	173	9.9%
2	Suspected	5	0.3%
3	Refused to answer	0	0%
8	Unknown	48	2.7%
9	Missing	20
Sysmiss		1453

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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