2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition

Zambia

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Reference ID

ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0

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Zambia Statistics Agency

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decision maker for using contraception (v632)

Data file: ZMBR71FL

Overview

Valid: 15345

Invalid: 23101

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	mainly respondent	2270	14.8%
2	mainly husband, partner	1538	10%
3	joint decision	11514	75%
6	other	23	0.1%
Sysmiss		23101

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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