The purpose of this report is to provide a guide to better understand and use fertility data in PMA2020 surveys and document lessons learned during the first four years of the project. The specific aims are: to document PMA2020’s methodology to measure total fertility rate (TFR); to assess the quality of fertility data in PMA2020 surveys; and, to estimate the TFR adjusted for identified issues. Findings suggest that use of the simple questionnaire introduced only under-counting of multiple births, which can be and have been adjusted in data analysis.
February 1, 2017