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Measuring Kinship Support for Children of Single Mothers in Nairobi, Kenya

KENYA, 2015
Health and Well-Being (HaW)
African Population and Health Research Centre, University of Maryland College Park, McGill University, Montreal
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Identification

IDNO
APHRC-KINSHIP-2016.1.0
Title
Measuring Kinship Support for Children of Single Mothers in Nairobi, Kenya
Country
Name Country code
KENYA KEN
Abstract
A strikingly large number of African children - up to 60% in some countries - do not co-reside with biological fathers. Most of these children are raised by single mothers, defined as women who are not married, cohabiting or in a socially recognized relationship with the biological or non-biological father of their children. The welfare of these children, however, has generated little concern as studies tend to emphasize the critical compensating role of extended kin in child rearing throughout Africa. It is often assumed that a large and supportive kin network will buffer against any negative effects of single motherhood on children's well-being. However, this assumption may be false. A recent study found that children of single mothers were significantly more likely to die before the age of five than children of mothers in union in 11 countries in Africa. Limited or inadequate support from extended kin may help explain these outcomes, but currently no data exists to rigorously investigate such a claim. In this pilot study, we have developed and administered an innovative survey instrument - Kinship Support Tree - designed to capture time- and space- varying measures of kinship support for single mothers and their young children in an urban context in Kenya characterized by low-income and high circular migration.

Version

Version Date
2016-12-02

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Korogocho
Unit of Analysis
Single Mothers
Universe
Single mothers with at least one child under the age of 7 residing in Korogocho

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity/Primary investigators
Agency Name Affiliation
African Population and Health Research Centre APHRC
University of Maryland College Park University of Maryland
McGill University, Montreal McGill University
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
Donatien Beguy APHRC Investigator
Caroline Kabiru APHRC Investigator
Sangeetha Madhavan University of Maryland Investigator
Shelley Clark McGill University Investigator
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Role
Eunice Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Funder
Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
Name Affiliation Role
Korogocho Residents NUHDSS Respondents

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
- Random sample of 500 children aged 0-5 who live with single mothers. In total, 462 single mothers with at least one child under the age of 7 residing in Korogocho were interviewed.

- Kin Sample: 5,344 close kin (co-resident and non-resident)

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date Cycle
2015-01-01 2015-02-28 Round 1
2015-06-01 2015-07-31 Round 2
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervision
Ten fieldworkers were recruited and divided in two teams with each comprising one supervisor and four interviewers.

Interviewers had the primary contact with respondents and did actual interviews. The supervisors were in-charge of assigning duties and ensuring the adherence to quality standards. To enhance the quality of data, the following measures were implemented:

1. Detailed training of field staff.

2. Supervisors carried out shadow interviews. A total of 18 shadow interviews were conducted with supervisors giving feedback to each of the interviewers.

3. Spot checks by the Research Officer and supervisors. This is where specific questions or issues are followed up with the respondent.

4. A system of error checking logs: Frequent reports on errors and inconsistencies are produced and sent to the field team for verification and possible correction. This was a coordinated effort between the office teams (both at APHRC and University of Maryland) and the field team.

The field team conducted meetings twice in a week to address any issues that arose. The other persons involved in the project kept abreast with the progress of data collection using frequent emails and weekly Skype calls.
Type of Research Instrument
Demographic attributes of mothers and close kin

Geo-spatial attributes of kin

Type and quantity of support provided to mother and child from kin

Child health and cognitive development

Data Processing

Other Processing
Once data collected on the Tablets, they were uploaded to the APHRC servers on a daily basis where they were pre-processed before being merged into the main database. The data were stored with password and access-restricted servers at the central offices. All Tablets had SQL backup databases purged at the end of data collection.

Data access

Contact
Name Affiliation Email
Head, Statistics and Survey Unit APHRC datarequests@aphrc.org
Conditions
The user agrees to comply with the following conditions:

1. Access to the restricted data will be limited to the Lead Researcher and other members of the research team listed in this request.

2. Copies of the restricted data or any data created on the basis of the original data will not be copied or made available to anyone other than those mentioned in this Data Access Agreement, unless formally authorized by the APHRC Director of Research.

3. The data will only be processed for the stated statistical and research purpose. They will be used for solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations. Data will not in any way be used for any administrative, proprietary or law enforcement purposes.

4. The Lead Researcher must state if it is their intention to match the restricted microdata with any other micro dataset. If any matching is to take place, details must be provided of the datasets to be matched and of the reasons for the matching. Any datasets created as a result of matching will be considered to be restricted and must comply with the terms of this Data Access Agreement.

5. The Lead Researcher undertakes that no attempt will be made to identify any individual person, family, business, enterprise or organization. If such a unique disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered and full details will be reported to the APHRC Director of Research (info@aphrc.org <mailto:info@aphrc.org> or datarequests@aphrc.org <mailto:datarequests@aphrc.org>). The identification will not be revealed to any other person not included in the Data Access Agreement.

6. The Lead Researcher will implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to licensed microdata acquired from the APHRC Microdata Portal. The microdata must be destroyed upon the completion of this research, unless the APHRC Director of Research obtains satisfactory guarantee that the data can be secured and provides written authorization to the Receiving Organization to retain them. Destruction of the microdata will be confirmed in writing by the Lead Researcher to the APHRC Director of Research.

7. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the APHRC Microdata Portal will cite the source of data in accordance with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.

8. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the APHRC Director of Research (info@aphrc.org <mailto:info@aphrc.org> or datarequests@aphrc.org <mailto:datarequests@aphrc.org>).

9. APHRC and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

10. This agreement will come into force on the date that approval is given for access to the restricted dataset and remain in force until the completion date of the project or an earlier date if the project is completed ahead of time.

11. If there are any changes to the project specification, security arrangements, personnel or organization detailed in this application form, it is the responsibility of the Lead Researcher to seek the agreement of the APHRC Director of Research to these changes. Where there is a change to the employer organization of the Lead Researcher this will involve a new application being made and termination of the original project.

Breaches of the agreement will be taken seriously and APHRC will take action against those responsible for the lapse if willful or accidental. Failure to comply with APHRC's directions of the Data Archive will be deemed to be a major breach of the agreement and may involve recourse to legal proceedings. APHRC will maintain and share with partner data archives a register of those individuals and organizations which are responsible for breaching the terms of the Data Access Agreement and will impose sanctions on release of future data to these parties.
Citation requirement
African Population and Health Research Center, Measuring Kinship Support for Children of Single Mothers in Nairobi, Kenya, December 2016. APHRC, Nairobi - Kenya.

Metadata production

Document ID
APHRC-KINSHIP-2016.1.0
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
African Population and Health Research Center APHRC APHRC Metadata Producer
Date of Production
2016-12-02
Document version
Version 1.0