Thanks for sharing your current coverage experience. I will try to provide some guidance and/or ideas that may help you arrive at an answer / solution to your questions. I just have 2 follow-up queries: 1) Usually, when we test our hypothesis through small area surveys, the sampling is purposive i.e. we select areas we believe to be high coverage or areas we believe to be low coverage and then find cases in those areas to see whether our hypotheses were correct. So, when you say you selected a sub-section randomly within the 4 areas you worked in, what hypothesis were you testing? Shouldn't you have known the areas you wanted to test beforehand already purposively? 2) By representativeness, what do you mean? Based on your description here, it seems that you had 4 working areas that are each divided in to sub-sections. Is that correct? You sampled in each of the 4 working areas by randomly selecting a sub-section in each? Is this correct? Now, to try to answer your questions, I will assume that you were testing hypothesis you made for each of the 4 areas you are working by randomly selecting a sub-section in each of the areas and then doing exhaustive case finding in each sub-section. And by doing this, you found more than 1,000 SAM cases. Given this assumption, I will say that the sample you've gotten is not purposive and can be considered representative as you state. So, for your question (1), I will say that you can do a coverage estimation given the sample size because this is a large sample size and will give you very good precision with your estimate. For your question (2), I will say that you don't need BayesSQUEAC calculator for this because you just need to do simple arithmetic of dividing your total SAM cases IN the programme by the total SAM cases you have found. This will be your coverage estimate. To determine the 95% confidence intervals (please note this is confidence interval, not credible interval as with BayesSQUEAC), you just need to use the following simple formula for calculating this interval: 95% CI = p ± 1.96 x sqrt { ( p x (1 - p) ) / n } where p = coverage proportion n = sample size (total SAM cases found) If the formula above is not clear the way it is presented here, click [url=http://www.validinternational.org/coverage/misc/95CI.pdf]here[/url] to get a much better formatted presentation of the formula. This means that you don't have to bother with changing the TCL of the BayesSQUEAC calculator. What do the others think? I hope this helps.

Hi Ernest Thanks for that answer - the team involved will appreciate it. A point of clarification about the process: the project works in 4 "sectors" of a city. The hypothesis was about the coverage within the entire sector (i.e. 3 were high coverage sectors, 1 was low coverage sector). Each sector has about 4-5 sub-sectors; what the team did was to randomly select a sub-sector from each of the 4 sectors, and to do house-to-house case-finding there. I hope that clarifies how the process was carried out Appreciate the support on the calculation of the CI S

Hi Ernest Thanks for that answer - the team involved will appreciate it. A point of clarification about the process: the project works in 4 "sectors" of a city. The hypothesis was about the coverage within the entire sector (i.e. 3 were high coverage sectors, 1 was low coverage sector). Each sector has about 4-5 sub-sectors; what the team did was to randomly select a sub-sector from each of the 4 sectors, and to do house-to-house case-finding there. I hope that clarifies how the process was carried out Appreciate the support on the calculation of the CI S

I think you could just use the data you have. Assuming that ... n = number of cases c = number of covered cases The coverage proportion p can be estimated as: p = c / n with c and n calculated for point of period coverage as appropriate. Given that you have such a large sample size, a 95% CI can be can be calculated as: 95% CI = p +/- 1.96 * sqrt((p * (1 - p) / n)) A worked example: n = 600 c = 240 p = c / n = 240 / 600 = 0.4 95% CI = 0.4 +/- 1.96 * sqrt((0.4 * (1 - 0.4) / 600)) = 0.4 +/- 1.96 * sqrt((0.4 * 0.6) / 600) = 0.4 +/- 0.0392 = 0.3608; 0.4392 Multiply all by 100 to get percentages (in the worked example ... coverage = 40.0%, 95% CI = 36.1%; 43.9%).