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)

Metadata

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Oct 18, 2010

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Dec 02, 2013

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Young women should wait for sex until marriage (Mv851g)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 15449

Invalid: 1273

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 527

End: 527

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Do you believe that young women should wait until they are married to have sexual intercourse?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1969	12.7%
1	Yes	13060	84.5%
8	Dk, not sure, depends	420	2.7%
9	Missing	37
Sysmiss		1236

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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