Assessing the Implementation of Sexuality Education Policies and Curricula in Kenya

KENYA, 2015
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center

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What was the main reason you first had sexual intercourse? (s805)

Data file: Student Dataset

Overview

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Questions and instructions

Literal question

What was the main reason you first had sexual intercourse?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I was curious/natural feelings/felt like it	512	20.6%
2	My partner wanted me to do it	149	6%
3	I wanted to fit in with the rest of my friends	40	1.6%
4	I expected gifts or moneyin exchange for sex	9	0.4%
5	I wanted to get pregnant/have a baby	2	0.1%
6	I was forced	50	2%
95	missing	12	0.5%
96	Other	15	0.6%
97	refusal	0	0%
98	I don't know/it just happened	59	2.4%
99	na	1636	65.9%

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.

Question pretext

If you have NOT had sexual intercourse, go to question 810.

If you have had sexual intercourse, continue to question 805.

If you ticked PREFER NOT TO ANSWER, you may continue the questionnaire from here and decide if the questions apply to you or not. If they don't apply, go to question 810

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

Description

Text

The main reason according to the respondent (student) as to why he or she decided to have his or her first sexual intercourse.

Universe

Students in either form 2 or 3 of the school participating in the study.