Demographic and Health Survey 1996

Zambia, 1996 - 1997

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ZMB_1996_DHS_v01_M

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Central Statistical Office

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Age at first intercourse (imp) (mv531)

Data file: MREC51

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 33

End: 34

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Respondents who have had sexual intercourse (MV525 <> 0).

Value	Category
0	Not had intercourse
97	Inconsistent
98	Don't know

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Notes

Age at first sexual intercourse - imputed. This is the same as MV525, except for respondents who reported that their first sexual intercourse was at the time of their union. For these cases, the age at first sex is taken from the age at first union. In cases where the age at first sex was inconsistent with the age at conception of the first child, but only by one year (V532 = 3), the age at first sex was reduced by one year, consistent with the "Rule of one" applied in DHS I which is the correction of the data if the error is no more than a month. Other cases flagged as inconsistent on variable V532 (codes 1, 2, 4, 5) are recoded as 97 (inconsistent). Cases coded 6 on V532 are not changed.

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