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

how long has spouse been away:unit (stp_q221_unit)

Data file: step up_round 1_ anon

Overview

vald 2822

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For how long has he been away?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	2660	94.3%
1	days	11	0.4%
2	weeks	49	1.7%
3	months	89	3.2%
4	years	13	0.5%
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

IF LESS THAN 12 MONTHS, ANSWER MUST BE RECORDED IN DAYS, WEEKS OR MONTHS.

Interviewer instructions

When husband is away but comes home sometimes; ask the woman how long her husband has been away from her and then record it in days/weeks/months/years in box. Note that the answer can be given in days, weeks, months or years. Select and put in the answer in the appropriate response categories provided on the tablet.

Description

Text

The duration the spouse has been away.

Universe

All married (living together with a partner)women aged 15-39 living in the households and there spouse has been away.

others

Notes

"221 For how long has he been away?"