If the nutrition program is functional in 12 UC of one District & we to conduct SQUEAC in few of them due to any reason, please guide me:
1. Minimum no. of UC for SQUEAC survey?
2. Any selection criteria?
Twelve SQUEACs would be time-consuming. You can take a sample of UCs. The approach that I use is to build a tree or hierarchy of fixed and program effects with UCs as "leaves" at the end nodes of the tree. Here is an example:
+-- URBAN -- UC1, UC2, UC3
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District --+
| +-- NGO supported -- UC4, UC5, UC6
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+-- RURAL --+
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+--- NOT upported -- UC7 .. UC12
In this example we have three end nodes (this is the minimum number of SQUEACs needed). You might pick a UC at random from each of the end-nodes.
It is a good idea to start by listing all factors that you think might have a big effect program operation / coverage and build a bushy tree which you can then "prune" back to include only the most likely major factors. Be sure that the tree can acomodate all UCs.
I hope this helps.
Mark Myatt
Technical Expert
Answered:
10 years ago