Malaria Indicator Survey: Basic Documentation for Survey Design and Implementation

Developed by the Survey and Indicator Guidance Task Force of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Campaign, this package of recommended tools aims to provide guidance for assessing coverage of key RBM interventions at the household level including coverage of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), anti-malarial treatment among children under five with fever, and intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) among pregnant women. It includes a standard set of indicators, recommended questionnaire and data tabulation plans for calculation of indicators, and guidance on conducting surveys, designing sampling frames and calculating sample sizes.

Components include:

• Core Component 1: Household Questionnaire
• Core Component 2: Women's Questionnaire
• Core Component 3: Rationale
• Core Component 4: Interviewer's Manual
• Core Component 5: Supervisor's Manual
• Core Component 6: Guidelines for Interviewer Training
• Core Component 7: Household Listing Manual
• Core Component 8: Sampling Guidelines
• Core Component 9: Tabulations for Key Malaria Indicators
• Biologic Component 1: Anaemia Testing (Preliminary Draft)
• Complementary Documents 1: A Field Guide to GPS (Global Positioning System) Data Collection & GPS Cluster Position FormApril 2005
• Complementary Documents 2: PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) Manual for Field Data Collection and Sampling-April 2005
• Complementary Documents 3: Calculating the Cost of the Malaria Indicator Survey-April 2005