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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worried about the cost of raising a child (stp_q320t)

Data file: stepup_round 2_anon

Overview

vald 2783

invd 0

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)	2637	94.8%
1	worried	30	1.1%
2	not worried	114	4.1%
3	unsure	0	0%
4	this is the first child	2	0.1%
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

Q320a-Q320w are asked to all women. These series of questions are focused on other pregnancies/births that occurred between the baseline and the second wave apart from pregnancy at the baseline and current pregnancy.

Q. 320r-320u: FEELINGS WHEN SHE FOUND OUT SHE WAS PREGNANT
These questions ask a respondent about her feelings when she found out about the pregnancy.

In Q320t, asks the respondent if she was she worried or not about how she could afford to raise her children properly with an extra child when she found out she was pregnant. Select 'THIS IS THE FIRST CHILD' if she is having her first pregnancy.

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.