7.9. How old were you / was [the respondent] when you had your/she had her last 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.
5.84 Question 7.9 Age of Mother at birth of Last Child
Score the age and use the same strategies adopted for Q7.8 as, for this question as well as Q7.8 there is always the possibility of recall lapses, especially for older women.
Please note that where the woman has had only one live birth, the age at Q7.9 will be the same as for Q7.8.