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

how long npreg-nster woman's spouse intends to wait before next child:unit (stp_q722_unit)

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 long would he like to wait from now before the birth of (a/another) child?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	1028	36.4%
1	months	29	1%
2	years	985	34.9%
93	soon/now	595	21.1%
98	don't know	155	5.5%
99	other	30	1.1%
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

This question asks for the woman's opinion of her husband's preference compared with her own. Read the entire question before accepting a response.
These are similar questions to Q703-Q708 but focused on her opinion about her husband's/partner's fertility preferences.

Description

Text

How long the woman's spouse intends to wait before the next child

Universe

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

others

Notes

"722How long would he like to wait from now before the birth of a/another child?"