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Table 1 Comparison of Intervention and Comparison Districts for Safe Childbirth Checklist Intervention, at Baseline (2011–12)

From: Does the safe childbirth checklist (SCC) program save newborn lives? Evidence from a realistic quasi-experimental study, Rajasthan, India

Indicators

Intervention Districts

Comparison districts

Source

Socio-Demographic indicators

  

Census 2011

Population (total)

2,148,061

2,507,706

 

Literacy rate (%)

63

70

 

Proportion Households having Monthly income Less than Rs. 5000)

67

63

 

Maternal & child health indicators

  

Annual Survey, 2012–2013

Institutional deliveries (%) Rural

77

79

 

Mothers who received any Antenatal check-up (%)

49

52

 

Children breastfed within one hour of birth (%)

55

63

 

NMR Rural (per 1000 live births)

39∙67

40.71∙

 

Pregnancy and Child Tracking System (PCTS,)

  

PCTS 2011–2012

Delivery load (Annual)

120,480

108,887

 

SBR per 1000 births (for 34 study facilities)a

23∙45

24∙10

 

Rapid assessment survey by Jhpiego (district data)

2012

Infrastructure (%)

 Electricity backup

88

89

 

 Running water for hand-washing

87

89

 

 Availability of blood bank and blood storage

15

21

 

Human Resource (compared against Indian Public Health Standard %)

 At District Hospitals

  Specialists (Obstetrician/Gynecologist)

100

93

 

  Pediatrician

112

93

  Staff nurses

30

43

 At Community Health Centres

  Specialists (Obstetrician/Gynecologist)

15

31

 

  Pediatrician

30

33

  Staff nurses

59

52

Staff nurses and ANMs trained in skill birth attendant (SBA)

19

20

 

Availability of Oxytocin

97

95

 

Magnesium sulphate

18

20

  1. aStillbirths for one sub-district facility is not recorded in system due to some acknowledged technical issues, thus was extrapolated using stillbirth rates for that facility from our data