Maternal and newborn health project in Gombe state, northeast Nigeria. Data from household, health facility and birth attendant surveys between 2015 and 2019.

Marchant, T. 2021. Maternal and newborn health project in Gombe state, northeast Nigeria. Data from household, health facility and birth attendant surveys between 2015 and 2019. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001712.

Marchant, T. Maternal and newborn health project in Gombe state, northeast Nigeria. Data from household, health facility and birth attendant surveys between 2015 and 2019. [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2021. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001712.

Marchant, T (2021). Maternal and newborn health project in Gombe state, northeast Nigeria. Data from household, health facility and birth attendant surveys between 2015 and 2019. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001712.

Description

This collection comprises the survey instruments and datasets for the cluster household, health facility and birth attendant quantitative surveys, which were conducted by the IDEAS II project in Gombe State, North-East Nigeria between November 2015 and August 2019. Data were collected to: (1) evaluate progress in the state against a set of priority indicators for maternal and newborn health (2) support local decision makers; and (3) improve measurement of priority indicators for maternal and newborn health by comparing the coverage estimates derived from multiple sources. Consult 'User Guide' for information on how to access survey datasets.

Methods

Description of data capture

Annual cluster household survey of individual women aged 13-49 about their uptake of health care, and the content of that health care during the pregnancy, intra-partum, and post-natal periods for their most recent live birth that occurred in the 12 months prior to survey date undertaken once a year. The household survey was conducted in 80 clusters from Gombe State, a total of 6,000 households. Clusters were defined as segmented enumeration areas. Cluster sampling was performed by listing all enumeration areas within intervention and comparison wards, cumulating their population size, and systematically selecting 40 from the list with probability proportional to size. All households in selected enumeration areas were listed, and enumeration areas segmented into groups of 75 or fewer households: field teams randomly selected one segment from each enumeration area as the cluster to be surveyed. Sampling completed in roughly 6,000 households across the 80 clusters (40 intervention clusters and 40 comparison clusters) for each round of data collection and with approximately 1,000 women with a live birth in the 12 months prior to the survey. The facility survey was completed every six months in the 97 primary health facilities providing services to household clusters plus 18 referral facilities in Gombe State. It comprised a readiness assessment, review of facility records and interviews with birth attendants. The facility questionnaire included a check list of staff, equipment, drugs, and infrastructure items present on the day of survey, and data extraction from maternity registers to ascertain facility workload during the last six months. In each facility, the birth attendant interview was conducted with the frontline worker who carried out the last delivery recorded in the maternity register. The questionnaire included questions about training and supervision, routine activities carried out, availability of supplies, workload during the last month and a detailed set of questions about behaviours during the last birth they attended.

Data capture method

Questionnaire

Data Collection Period

From	To
November 2015	August 2019

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

8 July 2021

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
10.2464	11.2716	-0.175781	0

Language(s) of written materials

English, Hausa

People & Groups

Data Creators	Marchant, T
Associated roles	Willey, B (Researcher), Exley, J (Researcher), Beaumont, E (Data Manager), Dhaliwal, F (Data Manager) and Umar, N (Researcher)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	IDEAS
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
IDEAS – Informed Decisions for Actions to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	ITDCZJ03	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000865