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.