Table 1.

Sections of the SSI guide

Caregivers’ Background	­ Relationship to child ­ Educational level ­ Occupation ­ Number of children ­ Socioeconomic indicators such as language(s) spoken, whether the family had access to piped water, type of floor, number of rooms, number of family members living in the same house ­ Distance to the closest health facility
Background of the child	­ Age ­ Sex ­ Breastfeeding history
Open ended question regarding pneumonia event	­ An open ended question, with no interruption or prompting, regarding the caregivers’ experience identifying and managing the pneumonia event
Pathway analysis chart	­ The pathway analysis chart involves systematic questions about the chronological actions that the caregiver took as soon as she/he realized that the child was sick: Who the caregiver asked for help; what this person did or told her/him to do; did the caregiver take the child to a health provider or not; what were the reasons for taking the child (or not); how many days lapsed between actions.