Children Who Slept Under an ITN

According to the WHO World Malaria Report (2017), the use of insecticide treated bed nets has been shown to reduce malaria mortality rates by 55% in children aged under 5 years. This indicator therefore measures the proportion of children who spent the previous night in the interviewed households and slept under an insecticide-treated bed net.

Collect the following data by conducting individual interviews with the caretakers of a representative sample of children younger than 5 years:

RECOMMENDED SURVEY QUESTIONS (Q) AND POSSIBLE ANSWERS (A)

Q1: How many children under 5 years slept in your household last night?

A1:

1) ____ children

2) doesn’t know / no response

Q2: During the last night, did any of these children sleep under a mosquito net?

A2: yes / no

(ask the following questions only if the previous answer is YES)

Q3: How many of these children slept under a mosquito net?

A3:

1) ____ children

2) doesn’t know / no response

Q4: Can I please see the mosquito net(s) the children slept under?

A4: mosquito net was shown / mosquito net was not shown

Q5 for enumerator: What type of mosquito net did the children sleep under?

A5:

1) insecticide-treated net [fill in the locally available types and brands]

2) other type of net

3) not possible to determine the type of net

Calculate the indicator’s value by dividing the number of children under 5 years who slept under an insecticide-treated net by those who did not and multiplying the result by 100. Exclude all respondents who at any point did not know or who did not show a mosquito net.

Disaggregate the data by the respondent’s location and wealth category.

1) Ensure that the enumerators are very familiar with the locally distributed / sold types of mosquito nets, so that they can recognize them easily. Consider providing them with pictures of various types of nets.