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

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

African Population & Health Research Center

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size of baby (wom_q427)

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

When (NAME) was born, was he/she very large, larger than average, average, smaller than average, or very small?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	very large	140	6.2%
2	larger than average	574	25.5%
3	average	1154	51.4%
4	smaller than average	208	9.3%
5	very small	42	1.9%
8	don't know	35	1.6%
9	not applicable	31	1.4%
9999995	missing:impute	63	2.8%

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

Read the entire question before accepting an answer. This is the woman's own opinion about the size of her baby. Some respondents may give you the baby's birth weight instead of a size.

Insist that you want to know whether she thinks the baby was VERY LARGE; LARGER THAN

AVERAGE; AVERAGE; SMALLER THAN AVERAGE, or VERY SMALL. If the respondent is unable to tell you the baby's size at birth, do not record an answer based on the birth weight information; simply select 'DON'T KNOW'.

Description

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Size of baby

Universe

All pregnancies (among women aged 12-49 years) in the five years preceding the survey