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Contraceptive use and perinatal mortality in the DHS : an assessment of the quality and consistency of calendars and histories / Sarah E.K. Bradley, William Winfrey, Trevor N. Croft.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, Sarah E. K., author.
- Winfrey, William, author.
- Croft, Trevor, author.
- Series:
- Demographic and Health Surveys methodological reports ; no. 17.
- DHS methodological reports ; no. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demographic surveys--Statistical methods.
- Demographic surveys.
- Health surveys--Statistical methods.
- Health surveys.
- Contraception--Statistics.
- Contraception.
- Perinatal death--Statistics.
- Perinatal death.
- Genre:
- Statistics
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 102 pages) : color illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Contraceptive use and perinatal mortality in the Demographic and Health Surveys
- Place of Publication:
- Rockville, Maryland, USA : ICF International, 2015.
- Summary:
- This study analyzes the quality of perinatal mortality and retrospective contraceptive prevalence rates calculated from various instruments used in the Demographic and Health Surveys. Perinatal mortality: In this report we compared methods for estimating perinatal mortality in The DHS Program. None of the methods appear to adequately capture perinatal mortality by the standard that we selected. However, we found that the pregnancy history and the birth history supplemented by special questions performed better than the birth history supplemented by the reproductive calendar. Contraceptive prevalence tabulated from the reproductive calendar: We assessed the consistency of contraceptive use reporting in the calendar by comparing retrospective contraceptive prevalence rates tabulated from the calendar with independently estimated current status contraceptive prevalence rates from a prior survey. We compared estimates from the two data sources for the same point in time among women in the same age groups. We found evidence of substantial underreporting of retrospective contraceptive use in the majority of calendars analyzed relative to current status estimates. Results suggest that both stillbirths and contraceptive use are underestimated in data collected using the reproductive calendar. We recommend experiments in future DHS surveys: random assignment of some households to receive a birth history plus calendar and others a pregnancy history, or a forward pregnancy history versus a backward pregnancy history to assess the impact on reporting of stillbirths; and experiments with shorter calendars and potentially alternative methods of electronic data collection to assess the impact of these changes on reporting of contraceptive use and discontinuation.
- Notes:
- "September 2015."
- "This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (DHS, viewed November 14, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bradley, Sarah E.K. Contraceptive use and perinatal mortality in the DHS.
- OCLC:
- 937407929
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