Productivity, family planning & reproductive health in Burkina Faso: the “PopDev” study - User Guide

Persisent Identifier

https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.13

Alternative Title

Productivité, planification familiale et santé de la reproduction: l’étude «PopDev»

Data Creators

Jenny CRESSWELL, Seydou DRABO, Veronique FILIPPI, Rasmané GANABA, Rosemonde GUISSOU, Patrick ILBOUDO, Denis OUEDRAOGO, Timothy POWELL-JACKSON, Henri SOMÉ André SOUBEIGA, Katerini STORENG, Maurice YAOGO

Data Description

Quantitative data from a prospective cohort study of 839 pregnant and/or postpartum women who were between seven months gestation and three months postpartum at recruitment. Participants were interviewed three times over a nine month period. The cohort is a population-representative sample of parturient women in the commune of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Data were collected relating to socio-demographic characteristics; household assets; reproductive history; women’s work and occupation including both income-generating and non-income generating activities; birth and postpartum preparedness; characteristics of the index delivery; contraceptive history and current use; fertility preferences; health-related functioning (ability to carry out usual daily activities); haemoglobin level; mental health measured through the K10 scale; time use diary; household food security scale.

Data Collection Methods

Multi-stage stratified (urban vs. rural) sampling was used to select a population-representative cohort of 839 child-bearing women. The sampling frame was from the 2006 census. Women aged 15-44 years were eligible to participate if they were between seven months gestation and three months postpartum at recruitment, regardless of whether the infant was live born or stillborn. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire. Each participant was interviewed up to three times: at baseline (seven months gestation to three months postpartum), three months post-baseline, and nine months post-baseline. The follow-up rate at the third survey round was 93%. A nested qualitative component comprising in-depth interviews with women and their husband/partner and focus group discussions was also conducted. The qualitative transcripts are not currently available for data sharing.

Data Analysis and Preparation

Double data entry was supervised by an experienced data manager (Henri SOMÉ). After initial cleaning, the data was exported to Stata version 13 for analysis.

Geographic regions

Burkina Faso

Key dates

Data collection took place between December 2013 and December 2014.

Quality Controls

The data collection tools (questionnaires etc.) were pre-tested prior to the start of fieldwork. Interview teams participated in a week long training workshop. Field teams were supervised by Rosemonde GUISSOU; overall supervision of quantitative fieldwork was managed by Dr Rasmané GANABA. Initial data checks for variable distribution or unusual values were regularly carried out, and correction and/or additional training of fieldworkers instigated as necessary.

Species:

Human population

Privacy:

Information that makes participants potentially identifiable (names, detailed locality information etc.) will not be made available for data sharing. Date of birth is available as month and year only. The dataset is anonymised; all participants are identified in the dataset by a numeric code that is not based on any potentially identifiable information (such as a social security code).

A copy of the information sheet and consent form used in the PopDev study is available.

Ethics

Ethical approval was granted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Observational Ethics Committee and the Institutional Ethical Review Committee of Centre Muraz.

Keywords

maternal health; reproductive health; family planning; productivity; women’s work; time use; birth preparedness; postpartum period;

Language of written material

French

Project

Productivity, family planning & reproductive health in Burkina Faso: the “PopDev” study

Funder/Sponsor

Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)

Grant Number

ES/K011049/1

Associated Roles