An evaluation of truncated birth histories for the rapid measurement of fertility and child survival.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Full birth histories (FBHs) are a key tool for estimating fertility and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries, but they are lengthy to collect. This is not desirable, especially for rapid turnaround surveys that ought to be short (e.g., mobile phone surveys). To reduce the length of the interview, some surveys resort to truncated birth histories (TBHs), where questions are asked only on recent births.

Methods

We used 32 Malaria Indicator Surveys that included TBHs from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Each set of TBHs was paired and compared to an overlapping set of FBHs (typically from a standard Demographic and Health Survey). We conducted a variety of data checks, including a comparison of the proportion of children reported in the reference pe

SUBMITTER: Masquelier B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10354946 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature