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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Other wives at marriage (poly1mar)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 13232

Invalid: 137

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 34

End: 34

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If Q2( currmar) = Yes : Now I am going to ask you questions about your current wife (ves)…. If Q2( currmar) = No and Q8(endymar)>0, then skip to Q15. If Q2( currmar) = No and Q8(endymar) = 00, then skip to Q24(poly2mar).

Literal question

Did you have other wife (ves) at the time you married her?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	10375	78.4%
1	Yes	2857	21.6%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	43
Sysmiss		94

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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