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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Wife beating justified if she neglects the children (Mv744b)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 15475

Invalid: 1247

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 333

End: 333

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 neglects the children?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	11806	76.3%
1	Yes	3241	20.9%
8	Don't know	428	2.8%
9	Missing	11
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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