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Table 1 Timeline of impact evaluation milestones

From: Evaluating a community-based early childhood education and development program in Indonesia: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial with supplementary matched control group

Impact evaluation milestones

Anticipated

Actual

Sample size calculations

December 2006

December 2006

Randomization of 20 villages/districts to T and C status

March to July 2007

March to July 2007

Selection of matched controls

March to July 2007

March to July 2007

Discovery of randomization compliance issues

N/A

December 2008

Batch 1/treatment receives block grants

February 2008

November to December 2008

Batch 1/treatment opens services

December 2008

March 2008 to December 2009

Baseline survey

January 2008

March to June 2009a

Batch 3/randomized control receives block grants

May 2009

November 2009 to June 2010

Batch 3/control opens services

July to August 2010

January 2010 to present

Midline survey

March 2010

July to August 2010

Endline survey

Planned for early 2013

February to July 2013

  1. aFieldwork in most districts took place in March and April 2009, with some exceptions. Data collection in Lombok went into June due to some delays in paying enumerators and because the sample was over double that of the other districts. Because it was discovered that data were falsified in Sarolangun and Bengkulu, the World Bank hired a team to re-administer surveys in Bengkulu in June 2009 and in Sarolangun from October to December 2009. C control, T treatment.