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 interfere with regular menses:female sterilization (stp_q609_f)

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 interfere with regular monthly bleeding?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	390	13.8%
1	yes	737	26.1%
2	no	1552	55%
98	don't know	143	5.1%
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.

Q609 asks a respondent whether she thinks using this method can cause interference of (unwanted effect on) monthly regular bleeding. Interferences could include change in timing and length of the cycle, pattern or volume of bleeding, other symptoms associated with menstruation.
This question is not asked for CONDOM, WITHDRAWAL and RHYTHM METHOD, because use of these methods doesn't affect monthly bleeding.

Description

Text

Whether the female sterilization is likely to interfere with regular menses.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"609In your opinion, is use of Female Sterilization likely to interfere with regular monthly bleeding?"