NUHDSS-Birth History 2005-2009

KENYA, 2005 - 2009
Nairobi Urban Health & Demographic Surveillance System

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

living child's age (years) at last birthday (bhc_ageyears)

Data file: birthhistorychildren_anon

Overview

vald 30617

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How old was (NAME) at his/her last birthday?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	less than 1 year	3087	10.1%
1		2510	8.2%
2		2243	7.3%
3		2215	7.2%
4		1928	6.3%
5		1901	6.2%
6		1708	5.6%
7		1507	4.9%
8		1368	4.5%
9		1169	3.8%
10		1041	3.4%
11		889	2.9%
12		891	2.9%
13		827	2.7%
14		740	2.4%
15		763	2.5%
16		650	2.1%
17		585	1.9%
18		528	1.7%
19		466	1.5%
20		439	1.4%
21		325	1.1%
22		313	1%
23		248	0.8%
24		174	0.6%
25		156	0.5%
26		130	0.4%
27		100	0.3%
28		58	0.2%
29		46	0.2%
30		40	0.1%
31		19	0.1%
32		13	0%
33		14	0%
34		2	0%
35		2	0%
36		1	0%
996	other	0	0%
997	refused	0	0%
998	don't know	0	0%
999	NIU (not in universe)	1489	4.9%
9999995	missing:impute	32	0.1%

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.

Question pretext

RECORD NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN 2.15 RECORD TWINS AND TRIPLETS ON SEPARATE LINES.

Question post text

RECORD AGE IN COMPLETED YEARS

RECORD '00' IF <1 YEAR

Interviewer instructions

Description

Text

The living child's age in years at the last birthday.

Universe

All the households that had a DSS female member aged 12-49 years.