The second poverty quintile measures the average wealth quintile of the catchment area that the facility covers. The first poverty quintile measures the wealth quintile of the small area place where the facility that the respondent last visited is located. Two sets of poverty quintiles were created for respondents by constructing poverty quintiles for primary care public health facilities. The wave 2 survey invitation was sent on the 2nd of July 2020 and the survey ended on the 5th of July 2020. The wave 1 survey was completed on June 30, 2020. Those who participated in the survey received R10 in airtime.

They could respond by SMS with 'JOIN' to participate in the survey, by SMSing 'STOP' to not participate or to reply with 'MORE' if they needed more information. The 15 000 women all received an invitation to join the SMS survey on the afternoon of 24 June 2020. The sample was stratified based on province, gestational age or age of their baby and their type of phone. By 2019 there were over 2 million registered MomConnect users.Ī self-weighted sample of 15 000 pregnant women and mothers with children under 12 months was drawn from the database of MomConnect users. By 2017 more than half of the women attending public sector antenatal care services in South Africa were registered on the Momconnect platform. The mobile health application also created a national pregnancy registry which has excellent coverage of pregnant women and new mothers. MomConnect is a mobile health (mHealth) solution created to improve and promote maternal health services in South Africa by providing pregnant mothers with free messaging facility and a helpdesk. The sample was drawn from the Momconnect mhealth platform created by the South African National Department of Health (NDOH) in 2014.

Rapid php 2020