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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Aug 18, 2025

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decision maker for not using contraception (v632a)

Data file: ZMBR71FL

Overview

Valid: 12185

Invalid: 26261

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	mainly respondent	3689	30.3%
2	mainly husband, partner	1388	11.4%
3	joint decision	6722	55.2%
6	other	386	3.2%
Sysmiss		26261

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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