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

# of births in woman's lifetime (stp_q302)

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 many children have you given birth to in your whole life?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	79	2.8%
0	none	0	0%
1		712	25.2%
2		877	31.1%
3		572	20.3%
4		340	12%
5		132	4.7%
6		60	2.1%
7		25	0.9%
8		17	0.6%
9		3	0.1%
10		4	0.1%
12		1	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.

These questions collect information about all births that the woman has had (no matter who the father is). It is important that you understand which events to include. We want to count all of the respondent's natural births. You should count all children who were born alive (that is, who showed signs of life by crying, breathing, or moving) even if they survived only for a few minutes. We want to know about the number of all the woman's births even if the child no longer stays in the household or if the child is no longer alive.

It is also important to understand which events should not be recorded. You must not record adopted or foster children or children of relatives who may be living in the households. You also should not include any of her husband's children to whom the respondent did not give birth herself. Finally, you must not record children who were born dead (stillbirths), miscarriages, or abortions.

This question serves two purposes: to introduce the section and to learn whether the respondent has ever given birth. Then fill the total number of births ever born to her in her whole life in Q302.

Description

Text

The number of births in woman's lifetime.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"302How many children have you given birth to in your whole life?"