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

worried about the cost of raising a child:non-pregnant woman (stp_q712)

Data file: step up_round 1_ anon

Overview

vald 2822

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If you became pregnant in the next few weeks, would you be worried or not worried about how you could afford to raise your children properly with an extra child.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	215	7.6%
1	worried	1119	39.7%
2	not worried	1458	51.7%
3	unsure	12	0.4%
4	this would be the first child	18	0.6%
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

These questions ask about respondent's feelings if she became pregnant in the next few weeks.

In Q.711, 'NO PARENT OR CONTACT WITH PARENT (S)' if she has no parent or no contact with her parent(s).

Filter Q714 &715: a women who said that she wants to become pregnant soon, it is unlikely that she would consider terminating the pregnancy when she finds she is her pregnant in the next few months. Thus Q716 is only to be asked to a woman who says she does not want to get pregnant now/soon.

Description

Text

Whether the woman is worried about the cost of raising a child.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"712If you became pregnant in the next few weeks, would you be worried or not worried about how you could afford to raise your children properly with an extra child."