7.8. How old were you / was [the respondent] when you had your/she had her first live-born child? _ _
5.81 General
Questions 7.6 - 7.14 are related to the number of live born children a woman has had. These questions are to be asked only of women under 65
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years old. Some women might tend to exclude children who were born alive but subsequently died. These children are not to be excluded from the count. A live birth is the product of a pregnancy which shows some form of life after expulsion even if it dies a few minutes after.
5.83 Question 7.8 Age of Mother at Birth of First Child
Score the age. Older women might have problems remembering but you must make an effort to get an estimate based either on the date of birth of the mother or the age of the first child and mother's age.