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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would consider terminating the pregnancy:npreg-nster woman (stp_q716)

Data file: stepup_round 2_anon

Overview

vald 2309

invd 474

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If you became pregnant in the next few months, would you consider or not consider terminating the pregnancy?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	NIU (not in universe)	452	19.6%
1	would consider termination	242	10.5%
2	wouldn't consider termination	1597	69.2%
3	unsure	18	0.8%
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

These questions ask about respondent's feelings if she became pregnant in the next few weeks.

In Q.711, 'NO PARENT OR CONTACT WITH PARENT (S)' if she has no parent or no contact with her parent(s).

Filter Q714 &715: a women who said that she wants to become pregnant soon, it is unlikely that she would consider terminating the pregnancy when she finds she is her pregnant in the next few months. Thus Q716 is only to be asked to a woman who says she does not want to get pregnant now/soon.

Description

Text

Whether the woman would consider terminating the pregnancy.

Universe

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

others

Notes

"716If you became pregnant in the next few months, would you consider or not consider terminating the pregnancy?"