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 31st 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)