Table 4 Suggested revisions to specific questions
Original question (as it is in DHS VIII) | Suggested revision |
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202. Do you have any sons or daughters to whom you have given birth who are now living with you? | • Are you living with any of your sons or daughters whom you gave birth to yourself? Probe: Include those who may temporarily be absent e.g. because they are at school, but who otherwise live with you |
204. Do you have any sons or daughters to whom you have given birth who are alive but do not live with you? | • Are any of your biological sons or daughters alive but not living with you now? |
210. Women sometimes have a pregnancy that does not result in a live birth. For example, a pregnancy can end in a miscarriage, an abortion, or the child can be born dead. Have you ever had a pregnancy that did not end in a live birth? | • Interviewer starts with definition of key terms (miscarriage and abortion; stillbirth here is already indicated as “born dead”) and then proceeds to question. Although this may lengthen the question, at least the data will be more accurate • The question can then be broken into multiple parts with each having its own response category (yes/no), rather than lumping up various outcomes into one question Women sometimes have a pregnancy that does not result in a live birth and I would like to find out from you: • Have you ever had a miscarriage? • Have you ever had an abortion? • Have you ever given birth to a baby who had already died? |
214. Now I would like to record all your pregnancies including live births, stillbirths, miscarriages, and abortions, starting with your first pregnancy | • Stillbirth should have already been defined well in question 210 |