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Area of Science:

  • Global Health
  • Health Services Research
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Effective coverage research is rapidly growing in global health.
  • Estimates often combine coverage and quality data but lack uncertainty quantification.
  • Calculating variance for composite measures presents a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate three methods for quantifying uncertainty in effective coverage estimation.
  • To assess the performance of exact, delta, and parametric bootstrap methods.
  • To provide practical guidance for estimating effective coverage uncertainty.

Main Methods:

  • A simulation study was conducted to compare confidence interval methods.
  • Methods evaluated include exact, delta, and parametric bootstrap.
  • Applied methods to antenatal care (ANC) adjusted coverage in Senegal.

Main Results:

  • Delta method showed modest overcoverage, outperforming others with small sample sizes.
  • Exact and bootstrap methods had issues near coverage boundaries (0 or 1).
  • All methods improved accuracy with larger sample sizes and values away from boundaries.

Conclusions:

  • Characterizing uncertainty in effective coverage is essential for health monitoring.
  • The delta method is recommended for inferring from combined data sources, especially with small samples.
  • Assumptions of independence must be considered when using these methods for stratified estimates.