Table 1.

Study summary of the process, sample size, data collection and analysis by objective

Process	Sample size	Data collection method	Data analysis approach
Objective 1–to identify a set of NSFs for health facilities for adequately providing newborn services
Formation of the expert panel → Listing of newborn interventions addressing the major causes of death → Listing of possible functions for each intervention → Consensus building and stabilising	4–6 Delphi workshops	Delphi survey	Central tendency (median) and a measure of distribution (IQR) for each of the items in the Delphi surveys
Objective 2–selection of NSFs indicators
Indicator listing → Indicator scoring and ranking → Consensus-building	2–3 Delphi workshops	Delphi survey	Central tendency (median) and a measure of distribution (IQR) for each of the items in the Delphi surveys
Objective 3–development of health facility assessment tool
Variable mapping (content and construct validity) → Variable validation	8–10 health facilities	HFS	Descriptive statistics for content validity and kappa statistics for construct validity
Objective 4–service availability and readiness of public health facilities
Training of data collectors → Health facility survey (HFS)	200 health facilities	HFS	Descriptive statistics (proportion) with 95% CI

NSF, newborn signal function.