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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Older/younger (agespmarrel)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 1520

Invalid: 11849

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 46

End: 46

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 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).
Do not ask this part of the question if respondent knows exact age or year of birth

Literal question

Is she older / younger than you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Same age	36	2.4%
2	Older	144	9.5%
3	Younger	1340	88.2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		11849

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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