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Abstract

The 2008 Reproductive Health Survey is part of the continuing series of periodic enquiries aimed at providing information on fertility levels and related factors which affect contraceptive use, unintended pregnancies and reproductive health among women 15-49 years and young adult males 15-24 years. It also aimed to provide information about knowledge, attitudes and proctices related to family planning and fertility of these population groups. The main objectives were: - to assess the current situation in Jamaica concerning fertility, unintended pregnancies, contraception, sexual behaviors, and various other reproductive health issues; - to assess knowledge, attitudes, use, and source of contraception, including a special module that provides estimates of contraceptive continuation and failure rates; - to document changes in fertility and contraceptive prevalence rates and study factors that affect these changes, such as geographic and socio-demographic factors, reproductive norms, and access to and availability of family planning services; - to assess health risk behaviors and utilization of preventive health services; - to obtain data about knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of young adults 15-24 years of age, including teen pregnancy and its risk factors; - to provide data on the level of knowledge about transmission and prevention of HIV; - to document gender norms and prevalence of gender-based violence, identify risk factors, and examine correlates with other reproductive health issues.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

• Individual;
• Household.

Universe

All non-institution dwellings All females 15-49 years and males 15-24 years living in non-institutional dwellings in Jamaica

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The Jamaica Reproductive Health Survey 2008 was a population-based probability survey consisting of in-person, face-to-face interviews with women (15-49 years) and men (15-24 years) at their homes. The survey was designed to collect information from a representative sample of approximately 8,200 women of reproductive age and 2,500 young adult men throughout Jamaica. The universe from which the respondents were selected included all females between the ages of 15 and 49 years and all males aged 15-24 years, regardless of marital status, who were living in households in Jamaica when the survey was carried out. The female and male samples were selected independently.

The household survey employed a stratified multistage sampling design using the 2001 census as the sampling frame. The household selection for the male sample was independent from the selection of households for the female sample. To better assist the key stakeholders in assessing the baseline situation at a sub-national level, the female sample was designed to produce estimates for all of the 14 parishes and the 4 health regions in Jamaica. The smaller male sample was designed to produce sub-national estimates for health regions only. The samples for both women and men are also designed to produce estimates for urban and rural populations at the national level.

The first stage of the three-stage sample design was the selection of census sectors, also known as Enumeration Districts (EDs). The 14 parishes of Jamaica are further subdivided into 307 "sampling regions" of approximately equal size, which constitute the strata for the JRHS sample. Within each sampling region 2, 3 or 4 EDs were selected with probability proportional to the size (PPS) of the ED, which is measured by the number of households in the ED, according to the 2001 census. All 307 sampling regions are represented in the male and female samples. The number of sampling regions in a parish varies as a function of population size and ranges from 14-22 in the smaller parishes-14 in Trelawny, Hanover, Westmorland, and St. Elizabeth, 15 in St. Ann, 16 in Portland, 17 in St James, 18 in Manchester, 20 in Kingston and St. Thomas, 22 in Clarendon and St. Mary-to a high of 46 in St. Catherine and 50 in St. Andrew. In the first stage selection, a total of 628 EDs were selected as primary sampling units (PSUs).

The target number of completed interviews in each sample (8,200 and 2,500, respectively for females and males) was divided among the 14 parishes and the minimum acceptable number of interviews per parish was set at 500 for the female sample and 176 for the male sample, equally distributed among the sampling regions within each parish. The average number of women aged 15-49 years and men 15-24 years per household identified in the 2002 Jamaica Reproductive Health Survey was used to provide an estimate of the number of households to be visited in each parish to produce the required number of completed female and male interviews in each parish. With these criteria, the number of dwellings to be interviewed in each PSU was generally equal within each parish but varied between parishes.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Two structured questionnaires - one for females, the other for males. Control forms include 1. Form CSDS 6 - List of hh to be enumerated 2. Form CSDS 14 - Interviewers daily progress report 3. Form CSDS 62 - Record of completed work assignment

Cleaning operations

CDC/DRH was responsible for data-entry set up, as well as data cleaning and management, preparation of the survey data sets. Editor/coder manuals were prepared and persons trained. Before data entry, all the questionnaires are edited and coded. The procedure demanded that all required fields were completed correctly and that the skips were adhered to.

Response rate

Of the 18,841 households selected in the female sample and 14,729 households selected in the male sample, 8,542 and 2,941 included at least one eligible respondent (a woman aged 15-49 years or a man aged 15-24 years). Of these, 8,259 women and 2,775 men were successfully interviewed, yielding response rates of 96.7% and 94.4%, respectively. As many as four visits were placed to each household with eligible respondents who were not at home during the initial household approach.

Almost all respondents who were selected to participate and who could be reached agreed to be interviewed. Less than one percent of eligible women and 2.5% of eligible men refused to be interviewed, and 2.5% of women and 3.2% of men could not be located. Response rates were not significantly different by residence, except for Kingston Metropolitan Area, where the participation rate among young men was slightly lower (89.8%).

Even though the overall response rate was similar in urban and rural areas, eligible respondents in urban areas were somewhat more likely to refuse to be interviewed.

Data appraisal

Detailed consistency checks were performed