Strengthening Evidence for Programming on Unintended Pregnancy, Developing and Validating Measures of Unintended Pregnancy and Reasons for Contraceptive Non-use among Married Women in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements

KENYA, 2016
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

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# friends/neighbours/relatives that have used contraceptives (stp_q505)

Data file: step up_round 1_ anon

Overview

vald 2822

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In your opinion, how many of your friends, neighbours or relatives have used methods or ways to avoid getting pregnant? Would you say most, about half, few or none?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
1	most	2419	85.7%
2	about half	138	4.9%
3	few	179	6.3%
4	none	66	2.3%
98	don't know/unsure	20	0.7%
9999995	missing:impute	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.

Question pretext

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

Q505 asks a respondent about how many friends, relatives, or neighbors have ever use method to avoid getting pregnant and ask she would say most, about half, few or none.

Description

Text

The number of friends/neighbours/relatives that have used contraceptives.

Universe

All married (living together with a partner)women aged 15-39 living in the households.

others

Notes

"505In your opinion, how many of your friends, neighbours or relatives have used methods or ways to avoid getting pregnant?Would you say most, about half, few or none?"