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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
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National Population Commission (NPC)
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Beating justification: refuses to have more children (Sm615g)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 15468
Invalid: 1254
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 573
End: 573
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:
beating If she refuses to have more children?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 13732
88.8%
1 Yes 1299
8.4%
8 Dk 437
2.8%
9 Missing 18
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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Derivation
Beating justification: refuses to have more children
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