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's spouse intends to wait before next child:value (stp_q733_value)

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 he like to wait before the birth of another child?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	2688	95.3%
1		6	0.2%
2		17	0.6%
3		28	1%
4		7	0.2%
5		32	1.1%
6		6	0.2%
7		2	0.1%
10		10	0.4%
998	don't know	25	0.9%
999	other	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

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 this pregnant woman's spouse intends to wait before next child.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"733# ofunit_name_733a:"