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

likely to cause unpleasant side effects:injectables (stp_q610_b)

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 is use of (METHOD) likely to cause unpleasant side effects?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	4	0.1%
1	yes	1687	59.8%
2	no	1128	40%
98	don't know	3	0.1%
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

We want to know her opinions about various aspects of each method. Note that we are not asking her knowledge about a method. Rather, we want to know her perceptions or belief towards use, side effects, and safety of each method.

Side effects are undesirable consequences of using a method that do not adversely affect the health of the user.

Ask a respondent whether she thinks the method is likely to cause unpleasant side effect(s). She may mention headache, nausea, dizziness, weight gain, acne, pain breast tenderness, mood swings or loss of sex drive as unpleasant side effects.

Description

Text

Whether the injectables is likely to cause unpleasant side effects.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"610In your opinion, is use of injectables likely to cause unpleasant side effects?"