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 preg woman intends to wait before next child:unit (stp_q727_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

After the birth of the child you are expecting now, how long would you like to wait from now before the birth of another child?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	2695	95.5%
1	months	0	0%
2	years	117	4.1%
98	don't know	10	0.4%
99	other	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

Note that these questions are to be asked to currently pregnant women. We want to make sure that pregnant women do not think that we are asking them whether they want the child they are pregnant with now. For this reason, we begin the questions by stating “After the birth of the child you are expecting now…...”

Description

Text

For how long after the current pregnancy the woman intends to wait before next child.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"727After the birth of the child you are expecting now, how long would you like to wait from now before the birth of another child?"