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

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contraceptive use (stp_col_2)

Data file: stepup_round 2_calendar_anon

Overview

vald 31099

invd 4213

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
-3	B (month of birth)	285	0.9%
-2	P (pregnant)	2326	7.5%
-1	T (month of pregnancy termination)	49	0.2%
0	no current use	4822	15.5%
1	female sterilization	54	0.2%
2	male sterilization	0	0%
3	iud	644	2.1%
4	implants	6113	19.7%
5	injectables	10122	32.5%
6	pill	2706	8.7%
7	male condom	412	1.3%
8	female condom	0	0%
10	lactational amenorrhea	394	1.3%
11	rhythm	2070	6.7%
12	withdrawal	84	0.3%
13	other	0	0%
14	emergency contraception	6	0%
15	other modern method	667	2.1%
16	other traditional method	345	1.1%
9999995	missing:impute	0	0%
Sysmiss		4213

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

The priority order for recording events in each month in Column 2 is as follows:
1) Months of use of the current contraceptive method (“0”-“14”)
2) Discontinuation of a contraceptive method, and months of use preceding the discontinuation

·The calendar only permits a single code in each month, so cannot record any dual method use. For any women reporting using two methods concurrently, only one method is recorded and this is the first (generally the most effective) method from the list of method codes.

·As for the contraceptive methods, the calendar does not permit reporting of more than one reason for discontinuation of a method. Respondents are asked for the main reason for discontinuation and this is recorded in Column 3 in the calendar.

·When switching methods, the method that was discontinued and the reason for discontinuation are recorded in that month, and the first month of use of the new method is recorded in the following month.

·If a respondent stops using a method in a month because they become pregnant, then either the method use or the pregnancy is recorded in the month. The months of pregnancy are recorded first, but because these are reported and recorded in completed months, typically the pregnancy would be recorded as starting in the following month, and the method will be recorded in the month in question. For example, assume a respondent was using the condom until about 15th January 2015, when she became pregnant, and she gave birth around 15th October 2015 after 9 months of pregnancy. The interviewer would record a “B” in October 2015, and eight “P”s in September 2015 back to February 2015 (for a total of 9 months). The interviewer would also record the discontinuation of use of the condom in January 2015 in Column 2 together with the reason for discontinuation in column 3 of the calendar.

·We do not know the true duration of episodes of contraceptive use because we do not ask the exact starting and end dates of a use. The general rule is that completed months of pregnancy or completed months of use are recorded when durations are provided by the respondent. For example, if a respondent reported that she used a method for 8 months, we would see 8 boxes containing the code for that method.

·When respondents reported that they started use of a method in a particular month and stopped using it in a particular month, we don't know when exactly that use started and stopped. For example, if we find that a respondent used the pill from February 2015 to April 2015 as marked in the calendar, this could be from February 1 to April 30 (3 months), or could be February 28 to April 1 (closer to 1 month). The general rule is that completed months of use are recorded in the calendar, but the imprecision of the calendar is a limitation.

Description

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The contraceptive use

Universe

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