Table 1.

Strength of Evidence of Included Family Planning Evaluation Studies by Type of Intervention and Strength of Evidence

Strength of Evidence
	Low	Medium	High
Demand-side interventions
• Mass media	Sood et al. 2004	Rogers et al. 1999
		Kincaid 2000a
		Meekers et al. 1997
		Meekers 1998
		Van Rossem et al. 1999a
		Van Rossem et al. 1999b
		Kim et al. 2001
		Magnani et al. 2000a
• Interpersonal communication
• Peer	Cartagena et al. 2006	Agha et al. 2004
	Ozcebe et al. 2003	Magnani et al. 2000b
		Brieger et al. 2001
		Speizer et al. 2001
		Askew et al. 2004
		Diop et al. 2004
		Vernon et al. 2004
		Bhuiya et al. 2004
		Mathur et al. 2004
• Instructor/facilitator	Mba et al. 2007	Eggleston et al. 2000	Cabezon et al. 2005
	Shuey et al. 1999	Magnani 2001	Walker et al. 2006
	FOCUS/CARE International, 2000	Mbizvo et al. 1997
		Murray et al. 2000
		Martiniuk et al. 2003
		Rusakaniko et al. 1997
		Stanton et al. 1998
• Community-based	Levitt-Dayal et al. 2001	Erulkar et al. 2004	Lou et al. 2004
		Tu et al. 2008	Ross et al. 2007
• Development approaches		Signorini et al. no date	Stecklov et al. 2007*
			Steele et al. 2001
Supply-side interventions	Babalola et al. 2001	Agha et al. 2007	Rahman et al. 2001
• Access	Douthwaite et al. 2005	Hennink and Clements, 2005	Sinha 2005
	Kincaid 2000b	Phillips et al. 1996	Debpuur et al. 2002
• Quality	Khan et al. 2004	Khan et al. 2008	Bashour et al. 2008
	Nawar et al. 2004	Kunene et al. 2004	Bolam et al. 1998
	Varkey et al. 2004	Sherwood-Fabre et al. 2002	Xiaoming et al. 2000
	Speizer et al. 2004	Sanogo et al. 2003
• Cost	Meuwissen et al. 2006

^*Included as 3 separate studies