User guide for Zambia Signal Functions Study dataset

Alternative Title

Central Province Health Facility Census dataset, 2016

Data Description

This dataset contains information related to health facilities’ infrastructure, staffing, equipment, supplies, and capacity to perform various clinical functions related to reproductive and maternal health service provision. The study was conducted in Central Province, Zambia and its primary aim was to assess facilities’ capacity to provide termination of pregnancy services.

Data Collection Methods

We conducted a health facility census at 193 of 217 (89%) public and private facilities in the study province. Data were collected on a tablet-based structured questionnaire using the Open Data Kit (ODK) platform and exported to Stata for analysis.

Geographic regions

All districts in Central Province, Zambia

Key dates

Data collection was conducted from March to May 2016.

Quality Controls

Interviewers participated in a one week training and pilot test prior to data collection. Data were collected on tablets, which allowed for monitoring of fieldwork and timely corrections to the instrument as needed.

Species

Health facilities

Privacy

Information that may lead to the identification of health facilities in the study have been removed. This includes survey date, district, facility name, respondent name, and GPS coordinates. The facilityID variable is random and uniquely identifies facilities.

Ethics

Ethics approvals were obtained from the institutional review boards at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Zambia, and Population Council. As this was a health facility assessment, we received approval from the Ministry of Health to conduct the study and no consent forms were used.

Keywords

Health facilities, Health facility census, Abortion, Reproductive and maternal health service

Language of written material

English

Project title

Evaluation of the Prevention of Maternal Deaths from Unwanted Pregnancies Programme (EVA-PMDUP)

Funder/Sponsor

UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Grant Number

EPIDHC18

Data Creators

Forename	Surname	Faculty / Dept	Institution	Role
Mardieh	Dennis	Epidemiology and Population Health / Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IDE)	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom	Data Creator
Nachela	Chelwa		Population Council, Zambia	Project Manager
Onikepe	Owolabi		Guttmacher Institute, Washington, United States	Co-Investigator
Jenny	Cresswell	Epidemiology and Population Health / Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IDE)	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom	Co-Investigator
Veronique	Filippi	Epidemiology and Population Health / Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IDE)	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom	Principal Investigator
Oona	Campbell	Epidemiology and Population Health / Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IDE)	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom	Principal Investigator

File Description

Filename	Description	Format	Access status	Licence
SignalFunctions2016.dta	Dataset containing health facility assessments from 193 facilities	Stata DTA	Request – Embargoed until 31^st Dec 2019	Data sharing agreement
SignalFunctions2016.csv	As above	Comma Separated Values	As above	As above
SignalFunctions_Codebook.pdf	Codebook containing the list of variables and code labels collected during the questionnaire		Open	Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)