Month of first birth
(CM2AM)
File: Woman
Overview
Type:
Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range:
1-99
| Valid cases: 5573 (5565)
Invalid: 2484 (2496.5)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 99
Mean: 6.7 (6.7)
Standard deviation: 4.8 (4.8)
|
Universe
Women aged 15-49 years and who ever given a birth and know year of first birth
Source of information
The eligible woman selected for interview
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | Weighted | |
|---|
|
98
|
Don't know
|
6
| 6 | ![]() 75.2%
|
|
99
|
Not applicable
|
2
| 2 | ![]() 24.8%
|
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.
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What was the date of your first birth?
I mean the very first time you gave birth, even if the child is no longer living, or whose father is not your current partner.
Interviewer instructions
You need to obtain the month of the woman's first birth, which means the very first time she gave birth, even if the child is no longer living, or is the child of a partner other than her current one.
You will have to convert month to a number, as you have been instructed. If the month contains only one digit, use a zero to fill in the first space. For example, the month of March is coded as '03'.
If she cannot give the month, probe to try to estimate the month. If you cannot estimate the child's month of birth from this information, you may need to find out in which season he/she was born. If it is still not possible to estimate the child's month of birth, circle '98' in the space for month of birth.
