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Create from my documents: Design a Health Household Survey

Create from my documents: Design a Health Household Survey: Your prompt

You are a senior MEAL specialist with expertise in health survey design and epidemiological data collection. Your task is to design a comprehensive Health Household Survey for "health program name" (from the material, if given).

Survey Context:

  • Program name: "program name" (from the material, if given)
  • Survey purpose: "purpose" (from the material, if given)
  • Target population: "population" (from the material, if given)
  • Geographic scope: "location" (from the material, if given)
  • Sample size estimate: "size" (from the material, if given)
  • Donor: "donor" (from the material, if given)
  • Comparable data sources: "sources" (from the material, if given)

Deliverables:

1. Survey Objectives and Design

  • Primary and secondary survey objectives
  • Survey type (cross-sectional, repeated cross-section, panel)
  • Analytical framework: which indicators require comparison to baseline, which to national benchmarks
  • Hypothesis statements for key outcome indicators

2. Sampling Strategy

  • Sampling frame and source (census data, beneficiary lists, community registers)
  • Multi-stage cluster sampling design: stage 1 (cluster/village selection using PPS), stage 2 (household selection using random walk or listing)
  • Stratification variables (urban/rural, intervention/comparison, district)
  • Sample size calculation showing assumptions: confidence level, margin of error, design effect, expected response rate, key indicator prevalence
  • Oversampling provisions for subgroups if needed
  • Inclusion and exclusion criteria for respondent eligibility

3. Questionnaire Modules Design the following validated modules with specific question references:

Module A: Household Identification and Demographics

  • Household roster (age, sex, relationship to head, education, disability using Washington Group Short Set)
  • Socioeconomic status (asset-based wealth index questions aligned to DHS)

Module B: Maternal Health

  • Antenatal care visits (number, timing, content of care per WHO ANC guidelines)
  • Place and type of delivery (facility vs. home, skilled birth attendant presence)
  • Postnatal care (timing and content of PNC visits per WHO recommendations)
  • Knowledge of obstetric danger signs (spontaneous recall with probe list)
  • Family planning (current use, method mix, unmet need per DHS standard questions)

Module C: Child Health and Immunization

  • Vaccination status by antigen (BCG, OPV, Penta/DPT, measles, rotavirus) using card verification plus maternal recall per WHO/UNICEF coverage survey methodology
  • Recent illness (diarrhea, fever, ARI in past 2 weeks per MICS standard module)
  • Care-seeking behavior for child illness (timing, provider, treatment received)
  • Vitamin A supplementation and deworming

Module D: Nutrition

  • Infant and Young Child Feeding: Early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency, minimum acceptable diet (WHO IYCF indicators)
  • Anthropometry protocols: weight-for-age, height-for-age, weight-for-height, MUAC (measurement procedures, equipment specifications, standardization protocol)
  • Maternal nutrition: dietary diversity, MUAC

Module E: WASH

  • Drinking water source and treatment (JMP classification questions)
  • Sanitation facility type (JMP classification)
  • Handwashing facility observation (soap and water availability)
  • Menstrual hygiene management (if age-appropriate)

4. Quality Assurance Protocols

  • Enumerator selection criteria and training plan (content, duration, practice interviews)
  • Piloting plan: number of pilot interviews, locations, feedback incorporation
  • Supervisor-to-enumerator ratio and supervision checklist
  • Daily data quality checks: completeness, skip logic verification, outlier detection
  • Back-check interviews (minimum 10% resurvey on key questions)
  • Anthropometry standardization test (TEM calculation for weight and height measurers)

5. Ethical Considerations

  • Informed consent script (verbal, written, or both)
  • Respondent confidentiality protections
  • Referral protocols for identified health concerns
  • IRB or ethical review board requirements
  • Data protection and storage protocols

6. Data Management Plan

  • Digital data collection platform (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO)
  • Skip logic and validation rules
  • Data cleaning protocol and timeline
  • Analysis plan outline: descriptive statistics, bivariate analysis, logistic regression for key outcomes
  • Indicator calculation specifications aligned to DHS/MICS definitions

Align questionnaire modules to DHS-8, MICS6, and WHO standard survey tools. Include question numbering and skip patterns.

Where the material is silent, write "Not in the material" rather than guessing.

Source material: Attached, or pasted below. Base everything above on it and do not invent details that are not in it.

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