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, 2017
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

CSV JSON

worried about the cost of raising a child:preg woman (stp_q316)

Data file: stepup_round 2_anon

Overview

vald 2309

invd 474

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

When you found out you were pregnant, were you 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)	2174	94.2%
1	worried	21	0.9%
2	not worried	112	4.9%
3	unsure	0	0%
4	this is the first child	2	0.1%
9999995	missing:impute	0	0%
Sysmiss		474

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.

QUESTION 306 -319 REFER TO WOMEN WHO ARE CURRENTLY PREGNANT

These questions ask a respondent about her feelings when she found her current pregnancy.

In Q.315, select NO PARENT/NO CONTACT WITH PARENT (S) if she has no parent or no contact with her parent(s).

Description

Text

Whether the woman was 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

"316When you found out you were pregnant, were you worried or not worried about how you could afford to raise your children properly with an extra child?"