Source of Data
Data used in this study was collected through two rounds of household
women surveys at baseline (2010) and end line (2015). A two-stage
sampling approach was used in which 66 predominantly rural enumeration
areas were first drawn and then followed by the sampling of households
proportional to population size . In each sampled household, all
resident women of reproductive age (15-49) were eligible to be
interviewed. The surveys collected data on demographic and
socio-economic characteristics of women including their birth histories,
access to care, healthcare utilization, and contraceptive use among
others. Both study rounds used the same enumeration areas to enhance the
statistical efficiency of repeat observation, although no effort was
made to reinterview the same women at the end line. A total of 5,604
women from 4,378 households were interviewed at baseline while 5,914
women from 4,421 households were interviewed at the end line. This study
uses data from a subset of this sample of women who have had a recent
pregnancy thus the baseline included 2,097 women of whom 1,020 were from
intervention areas and 1,077 were from comparison districts. The
end-line sub-sample includes 2,664 women of whom 1,357 were from
intervention and 1,307 from comparison districts.