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

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Nov 18, 2025

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Spouse lives (resspmar)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 13148

Invalid: 221

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 55

End: 55

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).

Literal question

Where does she usually live?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Same compound	1722	13.1%
2	Outside Karonga	80	0.6%
3	Elsewhere in karonga (specify village)	211	1.6%
4	Same crshse	10941	83.2%
5	Same village	192	1.5%
8	Unknown	2	0%
9	Missing	127
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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