Baseline, Midline, Endline and Follow-up Surveys on Community Challenge Fund, 2013-2016

The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development

Baseline data collection occurred in August-October 2013, prior to the start of the intervention. One fourth of counties were randomly assigned to be surveyed during the midline in August-September 2014, with the remaining three-fourths surveyed during the endline in November-December 2014. All counties were surveyed as part of the follow-up in November-December 2016. A total of 4,228 women and 3,695 children under two years old were surveyed at baseline. Of these, 3,152 women and 2,783 children were in the counties surveyed at endline, which will be primarily used in the analysis. After attrition and trimming outliers, the primary women sample consists of 2,335 women. For children, attrition and trimming outliers leaves 1,972 children who were interviewed at both baseline and endline. The final child sample also includes 985 children surveyed at endline who were in households that were interviewed at baseline, including some newly born infants and some youth who had missing data at baseline. The final child sample thus consists of 2,957 children.