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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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Most young women wait for sex until marriage (V851h)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 33316
Invalid: 1280
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 936
End: 936
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 19239
57.7%
1 Yes 9531
28.6%
8 Dk, not sure, depends 4546
13.6%
9 69
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.

Description

Universe
All eligible women
Source of information
Respondent
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