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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Most young women wait for sex until marriage (Mv851h)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 15453

Invalid: 1269

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 528

End: 528

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Do you think that most young women you know wait until they are married to have sexual intercourse?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	9040	58.5%
1	Yes	4674	30.2%
8	Dk, not sure, depends	1739	11.3%
9	Missing	33
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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