FPwatch: Facility‐based Survey Data for Family Planning Market Analysis in Five FP2020‐focus Countries

Abstract

This article describes datasets for the FPwatch Project, a comprehensive facility‐based family planning survey conducted by Population Services International in five countries in Africa and Asia from 2015 to 2017. Contents cover research design and background, methodology, sample selection, data collection, an overview of FPwatch indicators, and quality assurance measures taken. These datasets from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Myanmar, and Nigeria complement other facility‐based family planning surveys and are unique in their large‐scale, standardized methodology, and comprehensive sampling approach. In addition, all datasets but Myanmar (private only) include both private and public facilities, a feature that gives a more complete picture of the family planning supply environment. Because of these factors, the data is well suited to inform global family planning efforts.

Bias in product availability estimates from contraceptive outlet surveys: Evidence from the Consumer’s Market for Family Planning (CM4FP) study

“…The CM4FP outlet survey builds on the FPwatch study design, which also conducted an FP outlet census by enumerating, mapping, and surveying all outlets (of all sectors and levels) that offered FP methods and/or services of all types (but excluding outlets that offer only male condoms) [ 7 , 21 ]. As in FPwatch, CM4FP FP outlets in the study included hospitals, medical centers, clinics, health centers, pharmacies, and drug shops/chemists/Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs), but in an extension to FPwatch, CM4FP collected longitudinal data from outlets, returning to censused outlets quarterly.…”

“…While previous studies have measured the total contraceptive market in specific localities using censuses [ 7 ], thereby precluding the need for area-based sampling, identifying and surveying every service outlet is not a feasible approach for national, multi-year survey programs. The Performance Monitoring for Accountability (PMA) project has addressed this challenge by using a novel, area-based sampling approach to capture information on contraceptive service provision.…”

Data Papers

“…The data described in these papers demonstrate the breadth and depth of scientific inquiry in the fields covered by Studies, including: sexual and reproductive health, service delivery, marriage, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS. They include one data set designed to answer questions around trends in contraceptive use (Zimmerman et al 2017) and another that measures the quality of facility-based family planning services (Babazadeh et al 2018). Also included in this issue are papers describing two in-depth longitudinal data sets of young people in Malawi, both of which focus on the timing of key life events in the context of a generalized AIDS epidemic (Beegle and Poulin 2017;Yeatman et al 2019).…”