DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37127.v1
title: Tsogolo La Thanzi (TLT): Pregnancy Questionnaire Data, Malawi, 2009-2012 [Healthy Futures]
title: Version 1

description: Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT) is a longitudinal study in Balaka, Malawi designed to examine how young people navigate reproduction in an AIDS epidemic. Tsogolo la Thanzi means "Healthy Futures" in Chichewa, Malawi's most widely spoken language. New data is being collected to develop better understandings of the reproductive goals and behavior of young adults in Malawi -- the first cohort to never have experienced life without AIDS. To understand these patterns of family formation in a rapidly changing setting, TLT used the following approach: an intensive longitudinal design where respondents are interviewed every fourth months at TLT's centralized research center. Data collection began in May of 2009 and was completed in June of 2012. To assess changes on a longer time-horizon, a follow-up survey referred to as Tsogolo la Thanzi 2 (TLT-2) was fielded between June and August of 2016. Please see ICPSR 36863 for the baseline dataset. At each wave, women who tested as positive for pregnancy were given a questionnaire asking additional questions about that pregnancy. This dataset includes women from all waves.
description: Many of Tsogolo La Thanzi's (TLT) female respondents become pregnant during the study period. In order to gather information about women's pregnancy experiences, TLT administered a short pregnancy survey to female participants who tested positive for pregnancy or, if a pregnancy test was not administered, reported being pregnant during any of the interview waves, 1-8. This means that some respondents participated in the pregnancy questionnaire at multiple waves for the same pregnancy. Also, some respondents answered the pregnancy questionnaire at multiple waves with reference to multiple, unique pregnancies. Beyond the core sample, female participants in the refresher sample who either reported being pregnant or found they were pregnant via hGC urine test also completed the questionnaire and are included in this dataset as "wave 9".
description: The Tsogolo La Thanzi (TLT) is an ongoing longitudinal study of young Malawians living within 7-kilometer radius of Balaka. The data was collected during face-to-face interviews from a simple random sample. The relatively short pregnancy survey was administered after the main questionnaire and pregnancy testing had already been completed and took approximately 15 minutes to complete.
description: The pregnancy questionnaire asked pregnant women about several aspects of pregnancy, including information about her reactions to the pregnancy, her antenatal care experiences, and her pregnancy experiences thus far.
description: Response Rates: 95 percent of recruited respondents completed interviews at baseline.
description: The researchers used a simple random sample for this study. For more information on sampling, please visit the Tsogolo La Thanzi website.
description: Datasets: DS1: Tsogolo La Thanzi (TLT): Pregnancy Questionnaire Data, Malawi, 2009-2012 [Healthy Futures]
description: Young women age 15-25 in 2009 living in a 7km radius around Balaka, Malawi. Smallest Geographic Unit: None
description: face-to-face interviewThis collection is related to the Tsogolo La Thanzi (TLT): Baseline Wave Study, ICPSR 36863. For similar study information and characteristics, please refer to this study.For further information please visit the Tsogolo La Thanzi website.