Question pretext
READ NOTE 3: Next, we'd like to ask you some questions about sex. We know you may be shy, but we are asking these questions to better understand the health needs of young people like you. We want to remind you that all your answers will be kept strictly confidential and no one in this community will know the answers that you give, not your parents nor anyone else.
Literal question
During the past 12 months, try to estimate the approximate value in Kwacha of the gifts that this partner usually gave you during one month's time. IF SPOUSE OR EX-SPOUSE, ASK: "During the year before you were married, Did . . . ?"