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)

CSV JSON

age at first marriage (stp_q211)

Data file: step up_round 1_ anon

Overview

vald 2822

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How old were you the first time you started living with your (first) husband/partner as if married?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
12		5	0.2%
13		25	0.9%
14		55	1.9%
15		136	4.8%
16		173	6.1%
17		194	6.9%
18		346	12.3%
19		309	10.9%
20		478	16.9%
21		242	8.6%
22		230	8.2%
23		165	5.8%
24		136	4.8%
25		143	5.1%
26		64	2.3%
27		34	1.2%
28		39	1.4%
29		13	0.5%
30		14	0.5%
31		4	0.1%
32		6	0.2%
33		3	0.1%
35		3	0.1%
36		2	0.1%
9999995	missing:impute	3	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

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

We want to know the age when the respondent started living with her (first) husband or partner. If she can't remember the age, you will need to probe. Note that we are interested in her age at her first union (marriage or living together), not the age of first sex or first birth. Do not assume that the age of first union comes older than the age at first birth; it may be that she had her first birth before her first union. If she answers in terms of the number of years ago (for example, “two years ago”), probe to find her age at first union.

Description

Text

The age at which the woman was at her first marriage.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"211 How old were you the first time you started living with your first husband/partner as if married?"