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. 2007 Mar;25(1):37–46.

Table 3.

Proportion of health areas classified as inadequate based on LQAS (classification error less than 10%) and HDSS

Method No. of areas Proportion inadequate (number inadequate)
DPT: 65–95% Measles: 60–90% BCG: 65–95% CPR: 50–80%
LQAS 57 0.02 (1) 0.09 (5) 0.02 (1) 0.05 (2)
HDSS 57 0.04 (2) 0.02 (1) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0)
Sample size 15 20 15 26
Statistics
  Z 0.08 1.23 0.13 0.86
  p 0.47 0.22 0.90 0.90

CPR=Contracptive prevalence rate;

HDSS=Health and demographic surveillance system;

LQAS=Lot quality assurance sampling