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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exposure to need for contraception (definition 3) (v625a)

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	fecund	23926	62.2%
1	pregnant	2636	6.9%
2	postpartum amenorrheic	6546	17%
3	infecund, menopausal	5338	13.9%

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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