METHODS TO IMPROVE THE DATA ON CHILDREN IN DHS SURVEYS

改进国土安全部调查中儿童数据的方法

• 批准号: 3332198
• 负责人: THOMAS W PULLUM
• 金额: $ 8.86万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-01 至 1995-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3332198
• 关键词: Africa; Indonesia; child physical development; data collection methodology /evaluation; family planning; fertility; health surveys; human data; human population study; immunization; interview; preschool child (1-5); questionnaires

The increasing demand for data on fertility trends, contraceptive use, and child health in developing countries has led to the consolidation of several kinds of data collection within the main survey instrument used by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project. Revisions of the DHS core questionnaire have added questions on the health, vaccination status, and anthropometry of children under five years of age. There is strong evidence that in some countries these additional questions have caused some interviewers to omit or raise the ages of some children, thereby reducing their workload. Such omission or displacement leads to a downward bias in estimates of recent fertility and an upward bias in estimates of the accomplishments of the national family planning program. These effects have been most apparent in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Nigeria. - This project seeks to develop procedures to detect and adjust for such distortions, and to develop recommendations for changes in the survey instrument and/or field procedures that will minimize their occurrence in future surveys. The project will also attempt to identify the background patterns of misreporting of birthdates that are merely exacerbated by additional complexities in the questionnaires.

对有关生育趋势、避孕药具使用情况以及 发展中国家的儿童健康已经巩固了 使用的主要测量仪器内的几种数据采集 人口与健康调查（DHS）。 修订DHS 核心问卷增加了关于健康、疫苗接种状况 和五岁以下儿童的人体测量。 有强有力 有证据表明，在一些国家，这些额外的问题造成了 一些采访者忽略或提高一些孩子的年龄， 减少他们的工作量。 这种遗漏或移位导致 最近生育率估计数的向下偏差和最近生育率估计数的向上偏差 对国家计划生育方案成就的估计。 这些影响在巴基斯坦、印度尼西亚和尼日利亚最为明显。 - 该项目旨在制定程序，以检测和调整此类 扭曲的情况，并就调查中的变化提出建议 仪器和/或现场程序，以尽量减少其发生， 未来的调查 该项目还将试图确定背景 虚报出生日期的模式， 调查表中的额外复杂性。