Data Priorities for Population and Health in Developing Countries Summary of a Workshop (1996) / Chapter Skim
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SESSION II: ALTERNATIVE DATA COLLECTION STRATEGIES FOR MONITORING, ...
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Cross-Sectional Household Surveys In separate presentations, Julie DaVanzo and Leo Morris discussed the relative merits of household surveys for providing population and health information for monitoring, evaluation, and planning purposes. In the absence of reliable vital registration data, household surveys have been used extensively to provide information for calculating key population and health indicators such as fertility, infant and child mortality, and contraceptive prevalence rates on a representative sample of the population.
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In her presentation, DaVanzo considered some of the uses of survey data beyond estimation of rates, for example, for studying effects of programs on behavior and health outcomes. One of the chief problems with using crosssectional survey data to evaluate interventions is that it is often difficult to attribute observed changes in the indicators of interest to particular interventions.
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Opportunities to piggyback DHS surveys onto other nationally representative surveys such as national labor force surveys, warrant consideration. In his presentation, Morris discussed several issues that need to be considered when devising population-based household surveys, including determining the appropriate sample size and length of interview.
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Alternatives to cross-sectional surveys include vital registration data, health facility data, panel studies, and quick cluster surveys. Follow-Up modules Amy Tsui suggested that follow-up modules could be used more, to allow intensive interviews with subsamples of respondents selected on the basis of characteristics identified in the first interview.
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Reinterviews are costly (primarily due to the costs of additional fieldwork) and time consuming, but they allow a more comprehensive check on data quality than do studies of internal consistency of data from a single round of interviews.
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Health Facility Data For quick, relatively inexpensive estimates of infant mortality, Becker suggested that the preceding birth technique could be an effective measurement tool. This technique involves asking women who are at a health facility for a delivery or to have their young children immunized whether or not the child from their preceding birth is still alive.
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John Knodel argued that qualitative studies can complement surveys in three ways: by confirming survey findings; by explaining answers elicited by standardized questionnaire items; and by providing a more complete understanding of issues not addressed by the standardized surveys. Knodel's comments focused on the relative merits of focus group discussions and intensive one-on-one interviews.
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Workshop participants supported the idea that USAID support efforts to establish more systematic methods for the collection and coordination of qualitative studies and also conduct further research to determine best methods, practices, and potentials for linking qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection.
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