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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No. of other partners spouse had (spxtranum)

Data file: css_abs2spouses

Overview

Valid: 117

Invalid: 13252

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 121

End: 121

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

IF YES t o [spxtra]: Do you know or believe that she had sexual relations with other men (incl. spouses) during that time? , how many?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1	82	70.1%
2	2	17	14.5%
3	>= 2	16	13.7%
8	Unknown	2	1.7%
9	Missing	13
Sysmiss		13239

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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