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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
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Children 12-14 should wait for sex until marriage (V849)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 28555
Invalid: 6041
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 926
End: 926
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Should children age 12-14 be taught to wait until they get married to have sexual intercourse in order to avoid getting AIDS?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 3780
13.2%
1 Yes 23304
81.6%
8 Don't know / depends 1471
5.2%
9 Missing 72
Sysmiss 5969
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.

Description

Universe
Women who have heard of AIDS (V751=1)
Source of information
Respondent
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