2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition

Zambia

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ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0

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Zambia Statistics Agency

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frequency of reading newspaper or magazine (v157)

Data file: ZMBR71FL

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Valid: 38446

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 3

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	not at all	32960	85.7%
1	less than once a week	2897	7.5%
2	at least once a week	1923	5%
3	almost every day	666	1.7%

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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