Scaled-up Early Childhood Development Activities in Rural Mozambique Impact Evaluation 2016
Baseline Survey
Mozambique, 2016
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MOZ_2016_SUECDIE-BL_v02_M
Scaled-up Early Childhood Development Activities in Rural Mozambique Impact Evaluation 2016
Baseline Survey
SUECDIE-BL 2016
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Mozambique | MOZ |
This project followed a seminal impact evaluation of center-based community driven preschool model in rural areas of the Gaza Province of Mozambique implemented by Save the Children between 2008 and 2010. Results of this study showed promising impact in terms of cognitive and socio-emotional skills of children in communities with ECD centers, and led the Government of Mozambique increase its involvement in preschool activities by creating 150 new ECD across 5 provinces in a first phase, and subsequently 200 additional ECD centers in a second phase.
This is the baseline survey data. The Endline survey data can be found at https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/4021.
As part of the Education Sector Support Project in Mozambique (P125127), an initial credit of 40 million dollars has been provided by the World Bank to the Republic of Mozambique for the purpose of scaling-up Early Childhood Development activities in the country starting from 2012. Education Sector Support Project includes creation of 150 new community-based Early Childhood Development (ECD) centers across five provinces in Mozambique in the first phase and 200 additional centers in the second phase. This impact evaluation concerns the second phase of implementation and aims primarily at assessing the impact of ECD provision in rural area under governmental management using uses clustered random control trial at a community level. Data collection was carried out by the National Statistical Agency of Mozambique, Ministry of Education and the World Bank. 6,171 households were sampled across six participating districts (236 communities) from September to December 2016.
Provision of Community-Based ECD services was done through third party providers and included construction of preschool premises and playgrounds, training of local instructors, acquisition of the pedagogical material, and organization of parental activities.
Another World Bank-supported intervention in nutrition occurred simultaneously in one of the three provinces covered by the impact evaluation. Some areas in Nampula province received both types of interventions, maximizing likelihood that beneficiary children will be both well-nourished and receive adequate cognitive and overall stimulation in the early years of life.
ECD activities target children between 36 and 59 months old, while nutrition activities targeted pregnant women and children aged between 0 and 35 months. The baseline survey was carried out in 236 communities across the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Tete.
Communities were allocated randomly to one of the four following groups:
- Communities with ECD and nutrition intervention
- Communities with only ECD intervention
- Communities with only nutrition intervention
- Control communities with no interventions.
Sample survey data [ssd]
households
children between 36 and 59 months old
children aged between 0 and 35 months old
schools
Version
v02
This is an update to MOZ_2016_SUECDIE-BL_v01_M. There are two main updates. First, version 01 included a unique endline dataset. The updated version separates this unique dataset into two main datasets: one with data on outcome variables and characteristics of target child, caregivers, and household characteristics; and another one with data on labor and wealth indicators. Second, the updated version includes data on variables used for the Conditional Average Treatment Effect analysis.
Coverage
Two districts were selected in each participating province.
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Province of Cabo Delgado: Chiure and Macomia districts.
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Province of Nampula: Erati and Memba ditricts.
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Province of Tete: Changara and Angonia districts.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Sophie Naudeau | World Bank |
| Marie-Hélène Cloutier | World Bank |
| Fadila Caillaud | World Bank |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Bruno Besbas | World Bank | Field Research Coordinator |
| Ventura Mufume | World Bank | Field Coordinator |
| Ines Magode | Ministry of Education and Human Development of Mozambique (MINEDH) | Head of ECD Department |
| Basílio Cubula | National Statistical Agency of Mozambique (INE) | Head of Sampling Department |
| Cristovão Muahio | National Statistical Agency of Mozambique (INE) | Head of Methods Department |
| Cassiano Soda Chipembe | National Statistical Agency of Mozambique (INE) | Director of Demographic Statistics |
| Sergio Caetano | Ministry of Education and Human Development of Mozambique (MINEDH) | M&E Consultant |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| World Bank | WB |
| Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund | SIEF |
Sampling
Clustered randomized control trial (C-RCT) at community level used in this impact evaluation.
Communities were selected in each district according to eligibility criteria and then randomly assigned to the one of the four treatment arms in the Province of Nampula and to the ECD treatment or control group in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Tete. As part of the phase 2, the project planned to provide 20 ECD centers per district, except in Cabo Delgado where Macomia will receive 10 ECD centers while Chiùre will receive 30 centers. Remaining eligible communities were kept in case of substitution was needed.
A total of 6,171 households with preschool age children were sampled from the 236 evaluation communities at baseline. With no household listing available at the time of the survey, a census of each community was carried out to identify households with children in the age range of 36 to 59 months (and children aged 0 to35 months in Nampula). Taking the list of households with at least one child in this age range, 24 households per community were planned to be selected randomly in Cabo Delgado and Tete. In Nampula, in addition of those 24 selected household, 13 households with at least a child aged between 0 and 35 months and no child between 36 and 59 months.
In Cabo Delgado, the pool of eligible communities was too small and substitution of communities that were not accessible could not be done, leaving this province with only 76 participating communities instead of 80.
In Tete, a non-eligible community has been mixed up with a community belonging to the sample and was then discarded from the database.
Problem in the implementation of the nutrition program made non-random the assignment of communities benefiting from this program in the province of Nampula. Thus, while the RCT design for ECD intervention is still valid, impact of nutrition program might be evaluated through non or quasi-experimental methods in subsequent stages.
No weighting has been used.
Survey instrument
The following survey instruments were used:
- Socioeconomic Questionnaire
- Anthropometric measures of participating children
- Child assessments
- Community Leader Questionnaire
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-09 | 2016-12 | Baseline |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
All questionnaires were administrated using tablets and questionnaires were designed and administrated using Survey Solutions CAPI.
Socioeconomic questionnaire was administrated to the caregivers of the target child. In some cases the caregiver was not a member of the household. In this case, questions in relation to the household were asked to the head of the household and questions in relation to the target child were asked to the caregiver.
Depositor information
| Name |
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| Human Development Network (HDN) |
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Sophie Naudeau | World Bank |
| Confidentiality declaration text |
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Sophie Naudeau | World Bank | snaudeau@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_MOZ_2016_SUECDIE-BL_v02_M_WB
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | DECDG | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2024-06-07
Metadata version
Version 02 (2024-06-07)
The metadata is identical to MOZ_2016_SUECDIE-BL_v01_M with updates to the data dictionary updated with version 2 data.