Samvad Project Datasets

The Samvad project was designed to monitor and evaluate the Samvad intervention, a large-scale digital behaviour change intervention aimed at improving maternal and child nutrition in five Indian states. Six cross-sectional surveys were conducted across five states in India between September 2018 and December 2019. Data were collected from women with a child under two years and married women aged 15-34 years without a child under two years, the husbands of the women interviewed, frontline workers and Samvad video disseminators. From the women and men, data were collection on demographics, exposure to the Samvad intervention, and knowledge and behaviour of key maternal, newborn and young child nutrition and family planning practices. Data on video topic and number of attendees were collected from video disseminators and data on available services and health facility supplies were collected from frontline workers.

Additional Information

The anonymised datasets produced by the Samvad project are made available under controlled access conditions, in compliance with the participant consent form. Anonymised data may be requested for use in health research, on condition that is stored securely and not made available to others. To request data, complete the web form, outlining the relevant measurements that you wish to request from each dataset.

Keywords

Maternal and Newborn Health, Maternal and child health, Nutrition, Family planning, Cross-sectional survey, India, Household survey