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Using Satellite Data to Delineate Slum and Non-slum Sample Domains for an Urban Population Survey in Uttar Pradesh, India

Spatial Demography volume 4, pages 1–16 (2016)Cite this article

Abstract

We describe our approach to develop a sampling frame for slum and non-slum areas using satellite data for an impact evaluation of a reproductive health and family planning program in six cities of Uttar Pradesh, India. The methods used in the paper were developed as part of the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation project (MLE) of the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) program in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India. Increasing access and use of high-quality modern family planning services, particularly among the urban poor, is a primary goal of UHI. Family planning use is associated with lower maternal and child mortality rates, and unintended pregnancies (Cates, Contraception 81(6):460–461, 2010; Cleland et al., Lancet 368(9549):1810–1827, 2006, Lancet 380(9837):149–156, 2012). To evaluate the UHI program in UP, India, a total of six cities were selected for the impact evaluation: Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Moradabad and Varanasi. This paper describes the methodology developed to design a representative population-based sample of slum and non-slum areas to be surveyed before, during and at the end of UHI program implementation to capture behavior changes among the urban poor, slum and non-slum residents. Geographic data for slums was obtained from the Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC). These data were combined with road networks, administrative boundary data and remotely sensed imagery to delineate the study cities into slum and non-slum primary sampling units using Geographic Information Systems.

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  1. The Urban Health Initiative (UHI) India is a consortium of international, national, nongovernmental, and community-based organizations that work together with the government to improve the health of the urban poor funded by the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (URHI) established under the Reproductive Health Strategy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative is comprised of reproductive health programs in four countries: Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya and Uttar Pradesh (UP), India. External evaluations of all four URHI programs are implemented by the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. More details on the program can be found at: http://www.urbanreproductivehealth.org.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation project, the evaluation component of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, and for general support from the Carolina Population Center (R24 HD050924).The authors also thank the Remote Sensing Application Center for providing data used in this project.

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  1. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Livia Montana, Peter M. Lance, Ilene S. Speizer & David Guilkey

  2. Office of the Provost, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Chris Mankoff

  3. Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Ilene S. Speizer

  4. Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    David Guilkey

  5. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Livia Montana

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Montana, L., Lance, P.M., Mankoff, C. et al. Using Satellite Data to Delineate Slum and Non-slum Sample Domains for an Urban Population Survey in Uttar Pradesh, India. Spat Demogr 4, 1–16 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-015-0007-z

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  • Slum mapping
  • India
  • Urban health