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International Reproductive Health Surveys
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Through a Participating Agency Services
Agreement (PASA) between the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention/Division of Reproductive Health (CDC/DRH) and
United States
Agency for International Development (USAID)/Washington
under the MEASURE Project (Phase II),
MEASURE CDC contributes to the
scientific foundation upon which USAID, other donors and host
country institutions can make evidence-based decisions to
improve reproductive health programs.
MEASURE CDC provides technical
assistance with population-based surveys that help USAID, Ministries of Health,
international donor organizations, and nongovernmental organizations to
assess program needs and monitor program performance and impact over time.
CDC has been providing technical assistance for such surveys since 1975,
and has helped to carry out reproductive health surveys in Latin America,
the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union,
Africa, and the Middle East. MEASURE CDC trains its host counterparts in all
aspects of survey implementation.
MEASURE CDC-assisted surveys
are oriented toward program evaluation and are known for their
flexibility. Each survey is tailored to meet the needs of the country
where the survey is conducted. Special purpose modules can be added to
investigate topics specific to the country or program, such as young adult
issues, domestic violence, children's school attendance, HIV/AIDS,
nutrition, demand for and satisfaction with sterilization services, and
sexually-transmitted infections.
Survey
Topics and Types
Surveys provide family planning and reproductive health programs with
information that is extremely useful for evaluating current programs and
needed services, and for planning new services or improving existing ones.
The CDC/DRH Reproductive Health Surveys (RHS) collect
information in the areas of
- family
planning,
- fertility,
- infant and child
health,
- maternal morbidity
and mortality,
- young adult sexual
behavior, sex education, and opinions/attitudes toward
sexuality and gender issues,
- reproductive health
care issues,
- HIV and STDs,
- intimate partner
violence, and
- evaluation of
specific programs.
MEASURE CDC currently assists with four types of surveys:
International/Reproductive Health Surveys (RHS)
of reproductive-age women are conducted at a national, and occasionally at the subnational
level. These surveys measure a wide variety of health and demographic indicators such as
fertility, contraceptive use, infant and child mortality, child health, maternal morbidity
and mortality, and knowledge and attitudes about HIV/AIDS and sexually-transmitted
infections.
Male Reproductive Health Surveys
are occasionally conducted in conjunction with female surveys (as in Honduras,
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Albania) to
provide complementary information from an independent sample of reproductive-age men on
topics related to fertility, contraceptive use, sexual activity, and HIV/AIDS and
sexually-transmitted infections.
Young Adult Reproductive Health
Surveys (YARHS) are conducted with populations of males and females aged
15–24 years to obtain more detailed information on reproductive behavior
and related knowledge within this segment of the population. In some
cases, these surveys have been completed nationwide, and in others, they
have been conducted only in urban areas.
Reproductive Health Program Evaluation Surveys are
special purpose surveys designed to help evaluate the performance and impact of a
particular program. They are typically limited in content and sample subnational
populations in areas where a program has been implemented. Such a survey has most recently
been conducted in Russia.
Datasets may be available upon request.
Contact us for more information. Join our
mailing list and receive periodic updates about new surveys.
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Division of Reproductive
Health's Demographic Research and Program
Evaluation
Demographic research and program evaluation are the cornerstones of the
longstanding collaboration between CDC's Division of Reproductive Health (DRH)
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Page last reviewed: 9/29/08
Page last modified: 1/29/08
Content source: Division
of Reproductive Health,
National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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