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 to current spouse (stp_q212)

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 when you started living with the current husband/partner?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
12		4	0.1%
13		16	0.6%
14		44	1.6%
15		107	3.8%
16		145	5.1%
17		170	6%
18		323	11.4%
19		296	10.5%
20		474	16.8%
21		238	8.4%
22		239	8.5%
23		164	5.8%
24		147	5.2%
25		155	5.5%
26		72	2.6%
27		45	1.6%
28		58	2.1%
29		33	1.2%
30		34	1.2%
31		14	0.5%
32		13	0.5%
33		11	0.4%
34		4	0.1%
35		7	0.2%
36		4	0.1%
37		1	0%
38		1	0%
39		1	0%
9999995	missing:impute	2	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

Similar to Q210, ask the age when the respondent started living with her current husband or partner. As with other age questions, if she doesn't know, probe. Use information on events for which you already have information, However, if you were unable to obtain a numerical response, you will have to provide the AGE in Q. 210.

Description

Text

The age of the woman at first marriage to the current spouse.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"212 How old were you when you started living with the current husband/partner?"