2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition
Zambia
Get Microdata
Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0
Producer(s)
Zambia Statistics Agency
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Aug 18, 2025
Last modified
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age at first sex (v525)
Data file: ZMBR71FL
Overview
Valid:
38446
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | not had sex | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | 50 |
0.1%
|
|
| 9 | 17 |
0%
|
|
| 10 | 81 |
0.2%
|
|
| 11 | 224 |
0.6%
|
|
| 12 | 1000 |
2.6%
|
|
| 13 | 2050 |
5.3%
|
|
| 14 | 5332 |
13.9%
|
|
| 15 | 9572 |
24.9%
|
|
| 16 | 7382 |
19.2%
|
|
| 17 | 4431 |
11.5%
|
|
| 18 | 3898 |
10.1%
|
|
| 19 | 1660 |
4.3%
|
|
| 20 | 1432 |
3.7%
|
|
| 21 | 456 |
1.2%
|
|
| 22 | 309 |
0.8%
|
|
| 23 | 174 |
0.5%
|
|
| 24 | 134 |
0.3%
|
|
| 25 | 124 |
0.3%
|
|
| 26 | 37 |
0.1%
|
|
| 27 | 22 |
0.1%
|
|
| 28 | 24 |
0.1%
|
|
| 29 | 9 |
0%
|
|
| 30 | 15 |
0%
|
|
| 31 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 32 | 8 |
0%
|
|
| 33 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 35 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 96 | at first union | 0 |
0%
|
| 97 | inconsistent | 0 |
0%
|
| 98 | don't know | 0 |
0%
|
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.