Surveys of the Sustainable Programme Incorporating Nutrition & Games 2012-2017
India, Pakistan, 2012 - 2017
Identification
WLD_2012-2017_SPRING_v01_M
Surveys of the Sustainable Programme Incorporating Nutrition & Games 2012-2017
Cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys of child feeding, child growth, child development, and related maternal outcomes
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
| Pakistan | PAK |
Impact Evaluation Study
SPRING stands for Sustainable Programme Incorporating Nutrition and Games. It is an integrated nutrition and development intervention delivered at scale by community-based agents (CBAs), through monthly home visits from pregnancy through the first two years of life using a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based counselling approach to enhance the likelihood that behaviour change will occur. The impact of the SPRING intervention on child growth and development is being evaluated through parallel cluster randomized controlled trials in India and Pakistan.
SPRING is funded through a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant, which includes the development of the SPRING intervention and the impact evaluation. An additional grant from the Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) allows additional data collection on intermediate variables, process and implementation including costs together with additional qualitative and statistical analyses, in order to develop a more detailed understanding concerning how any impacts have been achieved and to inform going to scale with SPRING.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Version
The final SPRING impact evaluation datasets comprise of the:
- Baseline survey (cross-sectional, pre-implementation of SPRING): 2 datasets - India and Pakistan
- Assessment survey (children aged 12 and 18 months, cross-sectional, post-implementation of SPRING): 2 datasets - India and Pakistan
- Monthly feeding survey (longitudinal follow-up of children from birth, post-implementation of SPRING): 2 datasets - India and Pakistan
Data have been anonymised by the removal of parent and child names, dates of birth, dates of visit, and original IDs that could link this database to the original non-anonymous survey data. Ages of children and mothers at the time of each visit, and the month and year of birth of the children have been included.
Coverage
National coverage
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Betty Kirkwood | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Atif Rahman | University of Liverpool |
| Zelee Hill | University College London |
| Jolene Skordis-Worall | University College London |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Reetabrata Roy | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Questionnaire design, data collection, processing and analysis |
| Siham Sikander | Ministry of National Health Services Regulations & Coordination, Islamabad Pakistan | Questionnaire design, data collection and processing |
| Seyi Soremekun | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Data processing and analysis |
| Name |
|---|
| Wellcome Trust Programme Grant |
| Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund |
Sampling
The SPRING intervention was evaluated through cluster randomised trials in India and in Pakistan. Baseline surveys were conducted in each site prior to the implementation of the interventions and baseline data were used to inform the randomisation (to ensure balance between intervention arms for key variables).
Sample Size
The sample sizes shown in Table 1.2.1 in “Guide to the SPRING Evaluation Databases and Database Indicators” document were sufficient to give at least 80% power for gender specific analyses and 90% power when boys and girls were combined. All sample sizes were adjusted to take into account the cluster randomized design based on the intra-cluster correlation coefficient (ICC) and the average cluster size. They have also been adjusted to allow 20% losses to follow both from birth to 1 year of age and from 1 year to 18 months of age.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-08 | 2013-07 | Baseline survey Pakistan |
| 2014-06 | 2014-10 | Baseline survey India |
| 2014-05 | 2016-08 | Longitudinal feeding survey Pakistan |
| 2015-06 | 2017-07 | Longitudinal feeding survey India |
| 2015-05 | 2016-10 | 12-month assessment survey Pakistan |
| 2016-07 | 2017-04 | 12-month assessment survey India |
| 2015-11 | 2016-08 | 18-month assessment survey Pakistan |
| 2017-01 | 2017-10 | 18-month assessment survey India |
Baseline Surveys
Baseline surveys were conducted through house to house visits of all households within the trial evaluation clusters by fieldworkers recruited for the surveillance system to be resident in each cluster, with one fieldworker per cluster. They were carried out at the same time as registering all women into the surveillance systems who were aged less than 50 years, married, not sterilized and whose husbands were not sterilised.
The surveys used a baseline questionnaire administered through a mobile based application, which collected data on the youngest child aged less than 5 years including questions on maternal education, place of delivery of the youngest child plus breastfeeding and infant feeding practices. It also recorded GPS coordinates for each household. This was followed by an anthropometry survey which was carried out by supervisory level staff for children identified who were aged 18-30 months. In India, this was conducted alongside the baseline survey. In Pakistan, the anthropometry survey was carried out later as a separate cross-sectional exercise.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Julieta M Trias | World Bank | jtrias@worldbank.org |
| Betty Kirkwood | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | betty.kirkwood@lshtm.ac.uk |
UNTIL DECEMBER 2019: Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions and following review.
FROM JANUARY 2020: Public use files, accessible to all after registration
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Julieta M Trias | World Bank | jtrias@worldbank.org |
| Betty Kirkwood | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | betty.kirkwood@lshtm.ac.uk |
Metadata production
DDI_WLD_2012-2017_SPRING_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2018-12-28
Metadata version
Version 01