2002 Survey Questionnaires
The community questionnaire was a group interview conducted with knowledgeable members of each of the 54 communities (EAs) included in our study. Questions focused on community infrastructure such as availability of electricity, schools, health facilities as well as development priorities for the community.
The household questionnaire included questions on current household composition, including basic characteristics of household members (e.g., age, sex, ethnicity, religion and education), as well as economic characteristics of the household (e.g., source of drinking water, toilet facility, housing material, electricity, household possessions, etc.).
The women’s questionnaire, the longest questionnaire among our survey instruments, included modules on the respondent’s background, fertility history, child health (of co-resident living children under six years of age), fertility preferences and family planning. Many of the questions in these sections were standard socio-demographic survey questions, similar in content and format to, for example, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), particularly the fertility history section. However, in addition to these more conventional modules, our survey also included unique sections on child health knowledge and environmental attitudes and awareness.
The men’s questionnaire was largely a reduced version of the women’s questionnaire, with the same modules as the women’s version except the birth history (Section 2) and child health (Section 4) modules.
Both the women’s and men’s questionnaires also included a Life History Calendar (LHC) by yearly interval, a technique used to generate retrospective information about selected social and demographic events in an individual’s life. The calendar included domains on region of residence, urban or rural residence, education, occupation, marital status, and births and deaths of children. Information was collected by year because the LHC covers an individual’s entire lifetime. All men and women age 15 and above in each sampled household completed the life history calendar.