Reproductive Health Survey 2008-2009
Jamaica, 2008 - 2009
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Reproductive Health Survey 2008-2009
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Jamaica | JAM |
Other Household Health Survey [hh/hea]
The Reproductive Health Surveys are national surveys covering a wide range of topics including fertility, reproductive history, contraceptive usage, knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding reproduction and contraceptive use (and HIV - 1993), maternal and child health. Background socio-economic and demographic data are also included.
The 2008 Reproductive Health Survey is part of the continuing series of periodic enquiries aimed at providing information on fertility levels and related factors which affect contraceptive use, unintended pregnancies and reproductive health among women 15-49 years and young adult males 15-24 years. It also aimed to provide information about knowledge, attitudes and proctices related to family planning and fertility of these population groups. The main objectives were: - to assess the current situation in Jamaica concerning fertility, unintended pregnancies, contraception, sexual behaviors, and various other reproductive health issues; - to assess knowledge, attitudes, use, and source of contraception, including a special module that provides estimates of contraceptive continuation and failure rates; - to document changes in fertility and contraceptive prevalence rates and study factors that affect these changes, such as geographic and socio-demographic factors, reproductive norms, and access to and availability of family planning services; - to assess health risk behaviors and utilization of preventive health services; - to obtain data about knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of young adults 15-24 years of age, including teen pregnancy and its risk factors; - to provide data on the level of knowledge about transmission and prevention of HIV; - to document gender norms and prevalence of gender-based violence, identify risk factors, and examine correlates with other reproductive health issues.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Individual;
- Household.
Version
Edited data used for report
2010-03-31
DDI and ID field edited by World Bank Development Data Group for it's microdata library.
Scope
The 2008 RHS includes:
- Demographic characteristics;
- Household assets (durable goods and dwelling characteristics);
- Fertility and child mortality;
- Family planning and reproductive preferences;
- Reproductive and maternal health care utilization;
- Preventive and curative health care utilization;
- Risky health behaviors (smoking, alcohol and drug use);
- Young adult health education and behaviors;
- Gender norms and gender-based violence;
- HIV/AIDS and other STIs.
Coverage
National coverage
All non-institution dwellings All females 15-49 years and males 15-24 years living in non-institutional dwellings in Jamaica
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Family Planning Board | National Family Planning Board |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Statistical Institute of Jamaica | Government of Jamaica | Implement survey, data analysis and write report |
| National Family Planning Board | Government of Jamaica | Survey design and coordination and write report |
| Center for Disease Control | Government of USA | Techical support |
| Name |
|---|
| Government of Jamaica |
| United States Agency for International Development |
Sampling
The Jamaica Reproductive Health Survey 2008 was a population-based probability survey consisting of in-person, face-to-face interviews with women (15-49 years) and men (15-24 years) at their homes. The survey was designed to collect information from a representative sample of approximately 8,200 women of reproductive age and 2,500 young adult men throughout Jamaica. The universe from which the respondents were selected included all females between the ages of 15 and 49 years and all males aged 15-24 years, regardless of marital status, who were living in households in Jamaica when the survey was carried out. The female and male samples were selected independently.
The household survey employed a stratified multistage sampling design using the 2001 census as the sampling frame. The household selection for the male sample was independent from the selection of households for the female sample. To better assist the key stakeholders in assessing the baseline situation at a sub-national level, the female sample was designed to produce estimates for all of the 14 parishes and the 4 health regions in Jamaica. The smaller male sample was designed to produce sub-national estimates for health regions only. The samples for both women and men are also designed to produce estimates for urban and rural populations at the national level.
The first stage of the three-stage sample design was the selection of census sectors, also known as Enumeration Districts (EDs). The 14 parishes of Jamaica are further subdivided into 307 "sampling regions" of approximately equal size, which constitute the strata for the JRHS sample. Within each sampling region 2, 3 or 4 EDs were selected with probability proportional to the size (PPS) of the ED, which is measured by the number of households in the ED, according to the 2001 census. All 307 sampling regions are represented in the male and female samples. The number of sampling regions in a parish varies as a function of population size and ranges from 14-22 in the smaller parishes-14 in Trelawny, Hanover, Westmorland, and St. Elizabeth, 15 in St. Ann, 16 in Portland, 17 in St James, 18 in Manchester, 20 in Kingston and St. Thomas, 22 in Clarendon and St. Mary-to a high of 46 in St. Catherine and 50 in St. Andrew. In the first stage selection, a total of 628 EDs were selected as primary sampling units (PSUs).
The target number of completed interviews in each sample (8,200 and 2,500, respectively for females and males) was divided among the 14 parishes and the minimum acceptable number of interviews per parish was set at 500 for the female sample and 176 for the male sample, equally distributed among the sampling regions within each parish. The average number of women aged 15-49 years and men 15-24 years per household identified in the 2002 Jamaica Reproductive Health Survey was used to provide an estimate of the number of households to be visited in each parish to produce the required number of completed female and male interviews in each parish. With these criteria, the number of dwellings to be interviewed in each PSU was generally equal within each parish but varied between parishes.
Of the 18,841 households selected in the female sample and 14,729 households selected in the male sample, 8,542 and 2,941 included at least one eligible respondent (a woman aged 15-49 years or a man aged 15-24 years). Of these, 8,259 women and 2,775 men were successfully interviewed, yielding response rates of 96.7% and 94.4%, respectively. As many as four visits were placed to each household with eligible respondents who were not at home during the initial household approach.
Almost all respondents who were selected to participate and who could be reached agreed to be interviewed. Less than one percent of eligible women and 2.5% of eligible men refused to be interviewed, and 2.5% of women and 3.2% of men could not be located. Response rates were not significantly different by residence, except for Kingston Metropolitan Area, where the participation rate among young men was slightly lower (89.8%).
Even though the overall response rate was similar in urban and rural areas, eligible respondents in urban areas were somewhat more likely to refuse to be interviewed.
Because the sample design is not self-weighting, it was necessary to weight observations for data analysis. The initial two of three weights represented the differential selection of households in each sampling region and the selection of one eligible respondent per household, which compensates for the fact that some households included more than one eligible female or male respondent.
The number of households in each sampling region was compared with the number of households per sampling region estimated in the 2001 census projections. The ratio between the estimate of all existent households and sample-selected households in each sampling region represents the sampling-region-specific household expansion factor. This factor was later normalized so that the sum of the household weights was equal to the total number of households in the sample. The variation in this weight reflects variation in the selection probability of the households within each sampling region and parish.
Tabulations using these two weights (sampling-region-specific household weight and one-respondent selection weight) were used to compare demographic characteristics of respondents with completed interviews with the 2008 population projections for Jamaica by age group, sex, and place of residence. The age distribution of the 2008 RHS sample closely corresponded to the female population projections, except for overrepresenting women aged 45-49 years and underrepresenting women aged 30-39 years, regardless of the place of residence. The age distribution of the male sample was similar to the distribution in the census projections. Thus, a post-survey adjustment for the age distribution of the female sample was multiplied by the two weights mentioned above. The post-survey adjustment was based on the 2008 projections of the population by sex, age, and residence. For each sub-class, the post-survey adjustment factor was the ratio of the known national value to the sample estimate of that value.
As a result, the final survey weight is the product of 3 weights for the female sample (a household weight, a one-respondent-per-household weight, and a post-stratification weight) and 2 weights for the male sample (a household weight, a one-respondent-per-household weight).
Wt Female sample[final] = Wt[sampling region] Wt[one eligible respondent] Wt[post-stratification]
Wt Male sample[final] = Wt[sampling region] * Wt[one eligible respondent]
Survey instrument
Two structured questionnaires - one for females, the other for males. Control forms include 1. Form CSDS 6 - List of hh to be enumerated 2. Form CSDS 14 - Interviewers daily progress report 3. Form CSDS 62 - Record of completed work assignment
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2008-06-01 | 2009-04-30 |
Cross-sectional study
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| STATIN Interviewers | STATIN |
The 100 interviewers were supervised by supervsors and senior supervisors
Data collection for the RHS was carried out by approximately 100 female and male interviewers, with female interviewers conducting interviews of females and males and men interviewers collecting information from male respondents only. Most of the interviewers and supervisors had experience conducting interviews in other household surveys, including the three previous national Reproductive Health Surveys. Interviewer training and fieldwork was managed by staff of the STATIN. the training consisted of one week of classroom training in fieldwork procedures and proper administration of the questionnaire, and one week of practical training in the field with close monitoring by the trainers. Fieldwork lasted from June 2008 through April 2009, with field work interrupted between December and February. Interviews were conducted at the homes of respondents and lasted an average of 47 minutes for women and 46 minutes for men. Completed questionnaires were reviewed in the field by team supervisors, and then taken to the STATIN headquarters for data processing.
Data processing
CDC/DRH was responsible for data-entry set up, as well as data cleaning and management, preparation of the survey data sets. Editor/coder manuals were prepared and persons trained. Before data entry, all the questionnaires are edited and coded. The procedure demanded that all required fields were completed correctly and that the skips were adhered to.
Data appraisal
Detailed consistency checks were performed
Distributor information
| Organization name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| National Family Planning board | Government of Jamaica | http://www.jnfpb.org/ |
Data Access
| Name |
|---|
| National Family Planning Board |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Users of the data must agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets. |
Datasets are distributed at minimal or no cost for legitimate research depending on the classification of user, with the condition that users acknowledge source of data. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to the National Family Planning Board and the Derek Gordon Databank, University of the West Indies.
National Family Planning Board. Reproductive Health Survey 2008 Jamaica. [Computer file]. Kingston, Jamaica: Statistical Institute Of Jamaica ans Center for Disease Control[producer], 2010. Kingston, Jamaica: National Family Planning Board and Derek Gordon Databank, University of the West Indies [distributors], 2011.
Disclaimer and copyrights
The National Family Planning Board provides these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. The National Planning Board and University of the West Indies accepts no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Kristin Fox | University of the West Indies | helen.fox@uwimona.edu.jm |
| World Bank Microdata Library | microdata@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_JAM_2008_RHS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Derek Gordon Databank | University of the West Indies | Original producer |
2011-07-12
Metadata version
Version 2.0 (August 2013). Edited version based on metadata done by Derek Gordon Databank.