Population‐based indicators of the coverage of key elements of high‐quality family planning services are tracked via household surveys with female respondents, yet little work has been done to establish their validity. We take advantage of existing data sets from Cambodia and Kenya to compare women's responses at exit interviews following a health facility visit against the observations of a trained third‐party observer during the visit. The results, which treat the observations as the reference standard, show that indicators that measure contraceptive methods received are accurately reported while indicators of whether the woman received her preferred method and whether information was “discussed” or “explained” during counseling are less reliably reported. Studies designed explicitly to assess the validity of family planning questions in household surveys, especially questions in large survey programs critical for monitoring demographic trends and programmatic coverage, are needed.

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柬埔寨和肯尼亚妇女计划生育服务质量报告的有效性

高质量计划生育服务关键要素覆盖率的基于人口的指标是通过对女性受访者的家庭调查来跟踪的，但几乎没有做任何工作来确定其有效性。我们利用来自柬埔寨和肯尼亚的现有数据集，将妇女在卫生设施访问后的退出访谈中的反应与访问期间训练有素的第三方观察员的观察结果进行比较。将观察结果视为参考标准的结果表明，准确报告了衡量所接受避孕方法的指标，而有关妇女是否接受了她喜欢的方法以及在咨询期间是否“讨论”或“解释”信息的指标报告的可靠性较低.