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

India, Pakistan, 2012 - 2017

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Reference ID

WLD_2012-2017_SPRING_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/4h78-tf43

Producer(s)

Betty Kirkwood, Atif Rahman, Zelee Hill, Jolene Skordis-Worall

Collection(s)

The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF)

Metadata

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Identification

Survey ID number

WLD_2012-2017_SPRING_v01_M

Title

Surveys of the Sustainable Programme Incorporating Nutrition & Games 2012-2017

Subtitle

Cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys of child feeding, child growth, child development, and related maternal outcomes

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
India	IND
Pakistan	PAK

Study type

Impact Evaluation Study

Abstract

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.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Version

Version Description

The final SPRING impact evaluation datasets comprise of the:
1) Baseline survey (cross-sectional, pre-implementation of SPRING): 2 datasets - India and Pakistan
2) Assessment survey (children aged 12 and 18 months, cross-sectional, post-implementation of SPRING): 2 datasets - India and Pakistan
3) Monthly feeding survey (longitudinal follow-up of children from birth, post-implementation of SPRING): 2 datasets - India and Pakistan

Version Notes

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

Geographic Coverage

National coverage

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

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

Producers

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

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name
Wellcome Trust Programme Grant
Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

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

Dates of 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

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collection Notes

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.

Access policy

Access conditions

UNTIL DECEMBER 2019: Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions and following review.
FROM JANUARY 2020: Public use files, accessible to all after registration

Citation requirements

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

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	Email
Microdata Library	World Bank	microdata@worldbank.org

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

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	Email
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 Document ID

DDI_WLD_2012-2017_SPRING_v01_M_WB

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Documentation of the DDI

Date of Metadata Production

2018-12-28

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01

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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