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

spouse is away (stp_q220)

Data file: step up_round 1_ anon

Overview

vald 2822

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Is your husband/partner currently away for work, visiting relatives, or some other reasons?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
1	yes, spouse is away	162	5.7%
2	no, living with woman	2660	94.3%
98	don't know	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

When asking this question and subsequent questions, choose the appropriate term for the woman's relationship (husband or partner).

Ask whether her partner actually lives with her or lives elsewhere. If the woman's partner usually lives with her but is away only temporarily, record LIVING WITH ME.

Description

Text

Whether the spouse is currently away.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"220Is your husband/partner currently away for work, visiting relatives, or some other reasons?"