Thanks that makes sense. I was actually trying to ask what proportion of the households reported using ORS, not what percent of sachets were used. I think I get most of it it now nice one, still one thing I’m not clear on is...
Of the 2400 Households surveyed, how many of them reported using any ORS at all after 6 weeks? That’s a crucial number for me both as a sanity check and uptake check. I’m not sure if that’s in this report here or not
Just my 2 cents, but I think its helpful to start a report with the really basic design stuff, ie We gave out xxxx ORS sachets to XXXX Families while doing XXXXX education, then followed them up after XXXX weeks—I struggled a little bit to follow the process here. Not a big deal
That’s good feedback, thanks: we’ve perhaps leapt too directly from the conceptual description to the results, without properly quantifying the basic operation. Noted for improvement.
To (finally, I hope!) answer your question, of the ~2400 (2381) households surveyed—actually 2163 once we filter-out the non-consents:
1518 (70.1%) reported any occupant using ORS from any source; and
924 (42.7%) reported any occupant using ORS from our distribution.
in the 6 weeks of our follow-up period.
This is “all wards” data, so may skew somewhat according to exact response numbers per ward. Please take these numbers as provisional / subject-to-error in the name of a timely response.
We have not looked at them in more depth yet, but I see the value in this perspective and we’ll think more about what we might learn from them. I’m also interested in your take on what we might infer from these, Nick (and others).
Thanks that makes sense. I was actually trying to ask what proportion of the households reported using ORS, not what percent of sachets were used. I think I get most of it it now nice one, still one thing I’m not clear on is...
Of the 2400 Households surveyed, how many of them reported using any ORS at all after 6 weeks? That’s a crucial number for me both as a sanity check and uptake check. I’m not sure if that’s in this report here or not
Just my 2 cents, but I think its helpful to start a report with the really basic design stuff, ie We gave out xxxx ORS sachets to XXXX Families while doing XXXXX education, then followed them up after XXXX weeks—I struggled a little bit to follow the process here. Not a big deal
That’s good feedback, thanks: we’ve perhaps leapt too directly from the conceptual description to the results, without properly quantifying the basic operation. Noted for improvement.
To (finally, I hope!) answer your question, of the ~2400 (2381) households surveyed—actually 2163 once we filter-out the non-consents:
1518 (70.1%) reported any occupant using ORS from any source; and
924 (42.7%) reported any occupant using ORS from our distribution.
in the 6 weeks of our follow-up period.
This is “all wards” data, so may skew somewhat according to exact response numbers per ward. Please take these numbers as provisional / subject-to-error in the name of a timely response.
We have not looked at them in more depth yet, but I see the value in this perspective and we’ll think more about what we might learn from them. I’m also interested in your take on what we might infer from these, Nick (and others).