Median number of newborns (0–2 months) and children (2–59 months) registered in health centres and health posts in the quarter prior to survey at baseline (December 2016 to February 2017) and endline surveys (December 2018 to February 2019) in intervention and comparison areas
| Age group | Health centre | Health post | ||||||||||
| Baseline facility survey | Endline facility survey | Difference-in-differences* | P value | Baseline facility survey | Endline facility survey | Difference-in-differences* | P value† | |||||
| Intervention n=67 | Comparison n=88 | Intervention n=61 | Comparison n=81 | Intervention n=74 | Comparison n=95 | Intervention n=69 | Comparison n=96 | |||||
| Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median | |||
| 0 to 59 days | 5 (8) | 3 (6) | 9 (11) | 3 (6) | 4 | 0.08 | 0 (2) | 0 (1) | 0 (3) | 0 (0) | 0 | >0.99 |
| 2 to 59 months | 237 (309) | 149 (171) | 232 (340) | 128 (119) | 16 | 0.58 | 18 (37) | 13 (25) | 22 (33) | 10 (24) | 7 | 0.22 |
*Difference-in-differences: the difference in the median children seen in the 3 months prior to the survey between intervention and comparison area health facilities at endline subtracted from the difference in the median between intervention and comparison area health facilities at baseline.
†P value obtained from using quantile regression analysis.