Project Snapshot: Family Planning Survey

On February 16, 2016, The Strategic Analysis, Research & Training (START ) Center team successfully completed their 84th Work Order for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—an analysis of domestically-financed national surveys in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Led by UW graduate students Allison Osterman and Tracy Lam-Hine, and mentored by Dr. Joseph Babigumira and Dr. Emer Dooley, this project analyzed the costs associated with administering domestically-led household-level surveys on indicators of family health and well-being in LMICs.  The team concluded that national surveys by LMICs are rarely administered without significant financial and technical support from international donors, and while national-level survey institutions exist in most LMICs, capacity building is required to improve survey data quality.

For more information and to view the project’s final deliverables, please view the project page, here.