Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Impact Evaluation, 2020
Baseline Survey
Serbia, 2020
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SRB_2020_DHIPIE-BL_v01_M
Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Impact Evaluation, 2020
Baseline Survey
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Serbia | SRB |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
The program was rolled out in two phases and baseline date was collected in November 2020 (first phase) and February 2021(second phase). Endline data will be collected by a Firm in August 2021.
The Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Impact Evaluation will evaluate the virtual parenting skills workshops in Serbia for parents of children aged 2-6. The study’s goal is to examine the extent to which parenting workshops and communications improve parenting behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge to promote early childhood development, and to assess, to what extent, those changes are reflected in parent-reported child outcomes. The evaluation uses a randomized control trial (RCT) to test the impact of virtual parenting workshops on parenting behaviors and early childhood development. The study will also test whether or not father participation in parental training improves fathers’ behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge to promote early childhood development, and to what extent those changes are reflected in parent-reported child outcomes.
The program is delivered by preschool teachers who works at the local preschool institutions. The program was adapted from face-to-face meetings to virtual meeting group discussions, SMS messages, audio messages, calls, and a guide and complementary materials to have at home. The workshops will span 8 weeks, and cover topics of play, parentings stimulation, family environment and father involvement among others.
The sampling frame is the universe of families enrolled in the program in the target municipalities where this program is being implemented. From this universe we randomly assigned families in three groups: Treatment 1 (T1): Parenting virtual workshops for main caregiver (T1), Parenting virtual workshops for female and male caregiver (T2) and control groups who are placed on a waitlist and will be prioritized to receive the workshops in the future after the evaluation is completed.
The evaluation will have 1434 families in total in a two-phase delivery. The first phase started the implementation in December 2020 and the second phase started the program in March 2021. Baseline data was collected online through an enrollment form that families filled out to participate in the program. The first phase started enrollment in October 2020 and the second phase started in February 2021. Endline data collection will be in August 2021 for both phases.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households with children between 2 and 6 years of age.
Version
v01, edited anonymized dataset
2020-12-12
Coverage
The evaluation will have 1434 families in total in a two-phase delivery. This program was rolled out in 4 regions of Serbia (Vojvodina, Belgrade region, Region of South-East Serbia and Region of Sumadia and West Serbia). The first phase started rollout the first week of December 2020 covering 13 municipalities (Bac, Becej, Kragujevac, Niš, Odžaci, Pancevo, Požarevac, Sjenica, Smederevska Palanka, Svrljig, Valjevo, Vranje and Žabalj , The second group will started rollout in early March 2021 and covered 8 additional municipalities (Apatin, Golubac, Lazarevac, Majdanpek,Palilula, Smederevo, Velika Plana and Vlasotince).
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Ana Maria Munoz Boudet | World Bank |
| Pedro Carneiro | UCL |
| Katia Marina Herrera Sosa | World Bank |
| Julie Perng | Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund | Funding |
Sampling
Preschool institutions conducted recruitment of families with children ages 2-6 of their catchment areas by inviting them to participate in the parenting program. Interested families filled out an online enrollment form, providing information about their location, education level, main source of income, connectivity, number and age of children, preschool enrollment and language.
The sampling frame is the universe of families enrolled in the program. From this universe, families were randomly assigned into treatment and control arms. The unit of randomization is at the individual level. The sample was stratified by preschool institution, education level, income, and language.
After randomization was done, the research team created 6-10-families parenting groups within each preschool.
The program was rolled out in two phases. For the first phase the program implementation recruited a total of 1137 eligible families. Just before staring the implementation, 35 families dropped out and one preschool with 29 families also dropped out. Thus, the sample was 1073 families (265 treatment 1, 265 treatment 2 and 543 control). To have the expected total sample of 1440 , additional 361 families (102 treatment 1, 117 treatment 2 and 143 control) were recruited during second phase in February 2021. The final sample is 1434 families (366 treatment 1, 382 treatment 2 and 686 control).
The baseline sampling procedure was aligned to what was proposed in the research proposal.
Survey instrument
Baseline data collection was done through one online form filled out by the families. It collected information about location, education level, main source of income, connectivity, number and age of children, preschool enrollment and language. The questionnaire/form is provided for download in English and Serbian.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-12 | 2020-11-11 | First phase |
- Internet [int]
Data collection was done virtually, via internet. Preschools participating in the program reached out to families from their catchment area through brochures, pamphlets, and social media. Interested families enrolled through an online survey (Microsoft Form) created by the World Bank team and revised by the implementation partner.
Depositor information
| Name |
|---|
| Human Development Network (HDN) |
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Carneiro P., Herrera Sosa K., Munoz Boudet A.M., World Bank. Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Impact Evaluation 2020, Baseline Survey. Ref. SRB_2020_DHIPIE-BL_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
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Metadata production
DDI_SRB_2020_DHIPIE-BL_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2024-02-15
Metadata version
Version 01 (2024-02-15)