Adolescent childbearing experiences in Kenya: geographical and socioeconomic determinants

The aim of the paper is to to investigate the geographical and socioeconomic determinants of both teenage pregnancies and maternal health behaviours among adolescent women in Kenya. We firstly introduce a descriptive analysis aiming at presenting the main trends in fertility and reproductive health behaviour of Kenyan women as emerging from the 2003 and 2008-09 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHS). On a second step, we study childhood among younger women as emerging from 2003 KDHS