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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Frequency of sex with spouse category (sexfreqcat)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 2062

Invalid: 11307

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 112

End: 112

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

I will now ask questions about your sexual relations with this (ese) wife (ves) over the last 12 months.

Literal question

Frequency of sex with spouse( category)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<1	241	11.7%
2	1	319	15.5%
3	2-5	1291	62.6%
4	>5	211	10.2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	72
Sysmiss		11235

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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