Phase 1 Quantitative Investigation Methodology. In January 2012, identical Baseline KPC Surveys were administered in 30 Phase 1 and 30 Phase 2 communities of the three project municipalities and yielded quantitative baseline data for all project indicators. The Survey included 299 mothers of children 0-23 months from the 30 Phase 1 communities and 300 mothers of children 0- 23 months from the 30 Phase 2 communities, with all mothers and clusters randomly selected using standard stratified cluster sampling. This survey included questions on the six empowerment indicators. Details of the implementation, training of interviewers, quality control measures, and analysis are detailed in the report of these findings. Data was entered into Epi Info 7.1 and frequencies, proportions, confidence intervals, and p-values calculated first with Excel, and then confirmed with Epi-Info 7.. In September 2013 and in February 2014, mini-KPC Surveys of mothers of children aged 0-23 months were conducted in Phase 1 communities of all three municipalities. [A mini-KPC is a KPC Survey that focuses on a very limited number of indicators, and so is relatively brief and quick to administer, usually only 3 to 7 questions, plus a few demographic/locator questions]. The questions asked in both surveys were identical to those of the Baseline KPC Survey, and were those that pertained to the empowerment indicators listed above in Table 1. In addition to investigating other indicators, the September 2013 survey looked at 1) women’s contact with Care Groups/Care Group Volunteers; and 2) women’s participation in community meetings. A copy of the questionnaire is found in Appendix A. The February 2014 survey focused on 1) women’s participation in health related decision-making concerning place of their last delivery, practice of family planning, and care seeking for a child with symptoms of pneumonia/ARI; and 2) women’s control of the money they needed to purchase food for their children. A copy of the questionnaire is found in Appendix B. Following its CBIO methodology, the project keeps vital events registers which record new pregnancies, births, and maternal and U-5 deaths. The birth registers identify and locate the mother was well as the child. These birth registers were utilized to achieve simple random sampling (SRS), which permitted a sample size of 100 randomly selected mothers of children 0-23 months of age; this yielded sufficient power to detect statistically significant differences between baseline results and the results of t...
