Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS), 2012, 2nd Survey

KENYA, 2012
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center

CSV JSON

duration between last birth & first check up-unit (wom_q444_unit)

Data file: NCSS 2012 WOMEN PREGNANCY ANALYTICAL FILE

Overview

vald 2247

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many hours, days or weeks after the birth of (NAME) did the first check take place?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	hours	48	2.1%
2	days	62	2.8%
3	weeks	245	10.9%
998	don't know	2	0.1%
999	not applicable	1882	83.8%
9999995	missing:impute	8	0.4%

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

IF LESS THAN ONE DAY, RECORD HOURS. IF LESS THAN ONE WEEK, RECORD DAYS.

Interviewer instructions

Q. 443 is directed to women who delivered outside a health facility and asks about whether the child received a checkup from a health professional or traditional birth attendant in the two months after the child was born. For those children who did have a checkup, additional questions are asked about the first checkup the child had including: when this checkup took

place (Q.444), the person who did the checkup (Q.445), and where the checkup took place

(Q.446).

Description

Text

Duration between baby's birth & baby's first check up-unit

Universe

Last pregnancy (among women aged 12-49 years) in the five years preceding the survey which was delivered at a public or private health facility according to wom_q431 and for which woman was not given a health check by a health care provider before discharge according to wom_q435 and for which woman was given a health check by a health care provider or a traditional birth attendant after discharge according to wom_q438 and for which baby was given a health check within 2 months of birth by a health care provider or a traditional birth attendant according to wom_q443