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
Feb 26, 2026
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age at first sex (imputed) (v531)
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 | 324 |
0.8%
|
|
| 12 | 946 |
2.5%
|
|
| 13 | 2142 |
5.6%
|
|
| 14 | 5305 |
13.8%
|
|
| 15 | 9430 |
24.5%
|
|
| 16 | 7287 |
19%
|
|
| 17 | 4334 |
11.3%
|
|
| 18 | 3645 |
9.5%
|
|
| 19 | 1537 |
4%
|
|
| 20 | 1262 |
3.3%
|
|
| 21 | 403 |
1%
|
|
| 22 | 253 |
0.7%
|
|
| 23 | 164 |
0.4%
|
|
| 24 | 125 |
0.3%
|
|
| 25 | 106 |
0.3%
|
|
| 26 | 41 |
0.1%
|
|
| 27 | 13 |
0%
|
|
| 28 | 24 |
0.1%
|
|
| 29 | 9 |
0%
|
|
| 30 | 15 |
0%
|
|
| 31 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 32 | 8 |
0%
|
|
| 33 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 35 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 97 | inconsistent | 920 |
2.4%
|
| 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.