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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Fam Plann. 2021 Aug 14;52(4):467–486. doi: 10.1111/sifp.12173

Table 5.

Summary measures of the consistency of reporting contraceptive behavior during the overlapping calendar period, 2012 and 2014 MLE surveys, urban Kenya

(N) Percent
Reported same number of events 2412
  Exact 1353 56%
  Tolerance +/− 1 events 2090 87%
  Tolerance +/− 2 events 2312 96%
Reported same number of episodes of contraceptive use 2412
  Exact 1504 62%
  Tolerance +/− 1 episodes 2261 94%
  Tolerance +/− 2 episodes 2394 99%
Reported same number of months of contraceptive use 2412
  Exact 1041 43%
  Tolerance +/− 1 months 1180 49%
  Tolerance +/− 2 months 1296 54%
  Tolerance +/− 3 months 1410 58%
  Tolerance +/− 6 months 1630 68%
Exact month-by-month record match among all women 2412
  Exact match 772 32%
Exact month-by-month record match among women reporting 1+ episode of contraceptive use in 2012 1691
  Exact match 303 18%
*

The two contraceptive calendars overlapped by a period of 33 months