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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What consequence v3 onwards (reascon)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 3834

Invalid: 9535

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 95

End: 96

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Only ONE option

Literal question

If YES to [conseq]:If you have a child in the next year, will there be serious consequences?
, which consequence?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Financial	1735	45.3%
2	Woman's health	1071	27.9%
3	Children's health	870	22.7%
5	Own education	20	0.5%
6	Children's education	24	0.6%
9	Marital stability/instability	85	2.2%
98	Unknown	29	0.8%
99	Missing	50
Sysmiss		9485

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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