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 of last child at last birthday (stp_q322)

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 is the child at her/his last birthday?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	79	2.8%
0		421	14.9%
1		410	14.5%
2		416	14.7%
3		359	12.7%
4		297	10.5%
5		225	8%
6		165	5.8%
7		104	3.7%
8		85	3%
9		60	2.1%
10		71	2.5%
11		28	1%
12		28	1%
13		20	0.7%
14		12	0.4%
15		8	0.3%
16		11	0.4%
17		4	0.1%
18		4	0.1%
19		5	0.2%
20		4	0.1%
21		1	0%
22		2	0.1%
23		2	0.1%
24		1	0%
99	child is deceased	0	0%
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

In this section, information is collected about the births that a woman has had during her life, her current pregnancy status, and her knowledge of the monthly menstrual cycle. This is a particularly important section, and you need to be especially careful to obtain all the required information.

Q321-Q337 are to be asked of all women who had given at least one birth, which include currently pregnant women with at least one child.

If you have difficulty obtaining the last child's age, use the same methods to probe for his/her age as described in Qs. 101-102 for obtaining the respondent's age.

If the respondent knows last child's date of birth, select the appropriate boxes for MONTH and YEAR. You will need to convert the month into numbers. For this, January is '01', February is '02', March is '03', and so on. Try to obtain at least the year of birth. You can request mother to show immunization card/ birth certificate to check the date of birth. If age of the baby is less than one year, record “00”. If the baby is dead, record 99.

Description

Text

The age of the last child at last birthday.

Universe

All married (living together with a partner)women aged 15-39 living in the households and has atleast one live birth.

others

Notes

"System calculated child_age is child_age:322How old is the child at her/his last birthday?"