Alive & Thrive Kaduna Implementation Research Study- Women’s and Men’s Survey Datasets

The baseline and endline surveys were part of a pre-post evaluation of the impact of the Alive & Thrive (A&T) Nigeria intervention to engage fathers for improving complementary feeding in Kaduna State. The study was carried out in 6 administrative wards (2 urban, 4 rural) of Igabi local government area (LGA) in Kaduna State. Survey data were collected cross-sectionally from 495 cohabiting mothers and fathers of children 6-23 months at baseline and endline. Participants were randomly sampled within 99 clusters selected proportional to population size. Mothers were eligible if they had a biological child 6-23 months of age and were 18-49 years of age, regardless of their marital status, or 15-17 years of age and married. Fathers were eligible if they cohabited with the mother of their child 6-23 and were ≥18 years of age. Mothers and fathers were enrolled as pairs but interviewed separately. The purpose of the surveys was to obtain data on children's complementary feeding, changes in fathers' and mothers' knowledge and attitudes related to complementary feeding, and fathers' support for complementary feeding, and to measure participants' exposure to the intervention components (at endline).