Table 4.

Data collection strategy by PHIT Partnership country: Frequency and Sampling

		Ghana	Mozambique	Rwanda	Tanzania	Zambia
Facility-based data collection	Frequency	• CHW time-motion survey: Baseline • Health facility survey: Baseline and midline	• Patient exit and time-motion survey: Baseline and endline • Health facility survey: Annual service provision assessment and data quality audit	• Health facility survey: Quarterly	• CHW time-motion survey: Baseline • Health facility survey: Baseline and midline	• Health facility survey: Baseline, midline, and endline
	Sampling	Time-motion survey: Intervention areas Facility survey: Intervention and comparison areas	Patient exit & time-motion survey: Intervention and comparison areas Facility survey: 27 purposively selected facilities, intervention area	All 22 facilities in intervention area	Time-motion survey: Intervention areas Facility survey: Sample of 107 (baseline) and 141 (midline) facilities in intervention & comparison areas	All intervention and comparison areasa
Special studies	Frequency	Qualitative process evaluation	Qualitative process evaluation: endline	Qualitative process evaluation Policy analysis	Qualitative process evaluation	Qualitative process evaluation
	Sampling	Key informant interviews & focus group discussions with district and national health leaders	Key informant interviews with purposively selected stakeholders in intervention area	Key informant interviews with purposively selected local and national health leaders	Key informant interviews & focus group discussions with community, facility and district health leaders	Key informant interviews with facility and district leaders
Community Surveys / Demographic Surveillance System	Frequency	Community survey: Baseline & endline Demographic Surveillance system (Navrongo): Semi-annual	Community survey: Baseline, midline (2 surveys), & endline	Community survey: Baseline & endline	Health and Demographic Surveillance System: Semi-annual	Community survey: Approximately annual
	Sampling	Intervention and comparison areas	Intervention and comparison areas	Intervention and comparison areas	Intervention and comparison areas	Intervention and comparison areas
Health Management Information System	Frequency	Monthly facility reports	Monthly facility reports	Monthly facility reports	Monthly CHW activity reports	Monthly facility reports
	Sampling	Full capture for all intervention and control facilities	Full capture for all facilities in intervention area	Full capture for all facilities in intervention area	Full capture for all CHWs in intervention area	Full capture for all facilities in intervention and comparison areas
Project Monitoring System	Frequency	Ongoing training, supervision, program and financial reports Ongoing contextual data tracking	Ongoing training, supervision program and financial reports Ongoing contextual data tracking	Ongoing training, supervision program and financial reports Ongoing contextual data tracking	Ongoing training, supervision program and financial reports Ongoing contextual data tracking	Ongoing training, supervision program and financial reports Ongoing contextual data tracking
	Sampling	Routine activity reports: Intervention area Contextual data: Intervention and comparison areas	Routine activity reports: Intervention area Contextual data: Intervention and comparison areas	Routine activity reports: Intervention area Contextual data: Intervention and comparison areas	Routine activity reports: Intervention area Contextual data: Intervention and comparison areas	Routine activity reports: Intervention and comparison areas Contextual data: Intervention and comparison areas

^aNote: As Zambia used a stepped-wedge design, intervention and comparison facilities vary over time