Assessing the sustainability of the Nigerian urban reproductive health initiative facility-level programming: longitudinal analysis of service quality

Table 3 Description of service outcomes at baseline (2011), endline (2014), and sustainability study (2017) in the analysis sample by city, MLE facility surveys from Kaduna and Ilorin, Nigeria

	Ilorin			Kaduna
Variable	Baseline (2011)	Endline (2014)	Sustainability (2017)	Baseline (2011)	Endline (2014)	Sustainability (2017)
Overall quality index (mean)	−0.842	0.284	0.686	−1.758	0.734	1.167
Method provision index (mean)	−0.038	0.262	0.561	−1.318	−0.324	0.940
IEC materials index (mean)	−0.861	−0.091	0.478	−1.019	0.983	0.736
Stock out within 30 days index (mean)	0.343	−0.385	0.121	−0.057	− 0.442	0.291
Outreach index	0.044	0.222	0.196	−0.571	0.134	0.196
Mean number of providers trained on FP in the last one year	0.053	0.275	0.080	0.063	0.163	0.291
Mean (median) number of new acceptors per reproductive health staff member in the last 12 months^a	13.70 (6.00)	22.75 (14.92)	18.95 (9.02)	10.40 (4.75)	43.55 (16.42)	42.90 (21.11)
Mean (median) number of FP users per reproductive health staff member in the last 12 months^a	30.02 (12.07)	49.87 (37.50)	50.77 (21.11)	36.80 (12)	50.58 (21.23)	96.19 (37.83)
Total number of facilities	72	71	70	92	83	86

All indexes calculated using principal components analysis. ^aSample size slightly smaller due to missing data from some facilities on number of users

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