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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Oct 18, 2010

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Justifies domestic violence: wife fails to prepare food on t (S828f)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 33288

Invalid: 1308

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1215

End: 1215

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Sometimes a husband is annoyed or angered by things that his wife does. In your opinion, is a husband justified in hitting or beating his wife in the following situations: If she fails to prepare food on time?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	25821	77.6%
1	Yes	6391	19.2%
8	Don't know	1076	3.2%
9	Missing	97
Sysmiss		1211

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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