Service-domain variation in verification coverage between remote and in-person quality assessment for family planning and post-abortion care services: a longitudinal programme evaluation in Sierra Leone, 2019–2022

This repository contains the de-identified analytic dataset, variable dictionary, exclusion log, analysis code, and reproducibility output supporting the manuscript: “Service-domain variation in verification coverage between remote and in-person quality assessment for family planning and post-abortion care services: a longitudinal programme evaluation in Sierra Leone, 2019–2022.” The study examines whether service-observation verification coverage differs between remote and in-person quality assessment across seven family planning and post-abortion care service domains: short-term methods/condoms, IUD insertion, IUD removal, implant insertion, implant removal, manual vacuum aspiration (MVA), and medical post-abortion care (MPAC). The analytic dataset contains 110 de-identified Quality Technical Assessment records from 23 facility-channel units across 14 districts in Sierra Leone over four annual assessment cycles (2019–2022). The repository includes variables required to reproduce the manuscript’s exploratory domain-specific comparisons of verification coverage and quality-assessment performance scores. The primary analyses compare binary service-observation verification coverage between remote and in-person assessment modalities using Fisher’s exact test. The 2021 within-facility assessment sequence is examined using McNemar’s test where complete matched observations are available. Domain-specific quality-assessment performance scores among observed services are compared using the Mann–Whitney U test. The repository includes: the MS20 de-identified analytic dataset; a variable dictionary; a domain-specific exclusion log; reproducible Python analysis code; statistical output used to verify the reported results; and supporting documentation describing the derivation of analysis variables. The dataset was derived from routinely collected programme quality-assurance records. No personally identifiable information is included. Ethical approval for the underlying programme research was granted by the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee (SLESRC; Ref. 008/09/2022; initial approval 7 July 2020; extended through 20 July 2023).