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Characteristic of Mothers for In-depth
Interviews
A total of ninety mothers (10 from each district) were
selected for in-depth interviews. Out of the ten from each
district, 4 were from urban and 6 from rural areas. Majority
of them belonged to extended families. The age of mothers
ranged from 18 to 40 years with a median of 26 years.
Number of living children for these mothers varied 1 to 11
(mean 3.5 and median 3.0).
Number of sons varied from 0-8 (mean 1.85) and the
number of daughters varied from 0-7 (mean 1.6). The ages
of youngest child ranged from few days to 18 months with a
median of 6.5 months. Half of these mothers were illiterate
while only 18 percent had ten or more years of education.
More than 90 percent of the mothers were housewives,
others reported doing embroidery, running small shops and
teaching. Mostly the occupations of their spouses were of
low income.
Characteristics of Decision Makers
A total of 90 household decision makers were interviewed.
These comprised mother-in-law, father-in-law and husbands
of the mothers with less than 2 years old youngest child.
Two household decision makers were selected from each
UC thus making the total number of 10 decision makers
from each district. The decision makers were selected
keeping in mind their availability and willingness to give
interview. Majority of them were husbands, followed by
mothers-in-law and fathers-in-law.
upto 10 years of education.
2.4 Monitoring Plan
The fieldwork was very closely monitored by the TL and
DTL. They technically monitored the progress through
telephone daily and the team members read out the entire
transcription and got the feedback.
Each team also reported daily to PM about the day’s
activities and progress, through phone and the PM ensure
that the work is carried out on schedule and resolved
all logistic problems in field. She also ensured that the
transcripts are forwarded to AAA Office regularly.
2.5 Quality Assurance
The quality was assured through
• Hiring of experienced staff
• Training of FROs by core team members
• Thorough pretest of the study tools
• Daily reporting of fieldwork and narration of
transcription on phone to TL and/or DTL from all field
sites.
2.6 Data Analysis and Final Report of Findings
The data analysis was done manually by going through the
transcripts and seeking inputs from the FROs to have more
clarity of the information. The “Saving newborn lives – Tools
for Newborn Health: Qualitative research to Improve
Newborn Practices by Ronald P.Parlato, Garry, L. Darmstadt,
and Anne Tinker” was used to guide the analysis of the data.
The ages of mothers-in-law fall in the range of 35-75 years
with a median of 60 years, the ages of husbands were from
26-43 years with a median of 35 years. The ages of fathersin-law
ranged from 46 to 75 years with a median of 59
years. Seventy eight percent of the mothers-in-law were
illiterate. Among the husbands three were FA and two were
Matric. Twenty five percent of the husbands were illiterate
and an equal number had 10 or more years of education.
Only 3 among the fathers-in-law had ever attended a
school. Majority of the male decision makers were either
farmers or labourers or had small businesses.
Characteristics of Key informants
The key informants comprised of daiyan, LHV, LHW. At
least five key informants were interviewed in each district
(one from each UC). The type of key informant selected
in a UC depended on the availability and willingness of
the respondent to give interview. Majority of these were,
however, daiyan and LHWs. The ages of key informants
ranged from 21 to 80 years with a median of 45 years.
Majority of Daiyan were illiterate whereas the LHWs had
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