Coverage, nutrition and service quality, measured at the household and the facility
Bharat Survey is a survey agency for public health and healthcare NGOs, CSR health programmes and health departments. We run immunisation and service coverage surveys, child nutrition measurement, facility assessments and community health studies, and we give frontline programme teams an offline Android app for their own monitoring. Consent, privacy and supervised quality checks come before any number reaches a report.
Hello, I am Ram Kumar. This survey is run by Sample Organisation. Purpose: to learn about amenities in your area. It is voluntary, and you can say no at any time.
Health surveys fail quietly when measurement is sloppy: a child weighed on an uncalibrated scale, a vaccine date read from memory instead of the card. The protocol is the product.
For organisations whose staff support community health workers, the app replaces paper checklists and delayed spreadsheets. It supplements government systems; it does not replace them.
Measurers practise on children with a trainer, and each measurer's readings are compared before fieldwork begins.
Consent is read in the local language, and caregivers can refuse measurement or any question.
Dates are entered from documents where they exist, with the source recorded for each dose.
Implausible values trigger same-week re-measurement rather than silent deletion.
A health baseline should use indicator definitions that match national survey conventions where possible, so programme results can be read against district and state figures. We agree definitions, age groups and recall periods in the inception note and keep them fixed at endline.
Some funders need a third party evaluation agency for public healthcare and vaccination tracking that did not implement the programme; our teams report to the commissioning organisation, not the implementer. Others need a data collection agency for public healthcare and vaccination tracking that runs fieldwork to their protocol and hands over clean data. We state which role we are playing in the contract.
Straight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.
Yes, with trained measurers, calibrated equipment and a standardisation exercise before fieldwork. Values outside plausible ranges are flagged and re-measured. Children who appear severely unwell are referred following a protocol agreed with the programme before the survey begins.
No. Anganwadi workers and ASHAs report through government systems. NGOs use our app for their own programme monitoring, supervision and evaluation, which sits alongside official reporting rather than replacing it.
Research that collects health information from people often needs ethics review under ICMR's national guidelines, especially with biological measurements or sensitive topics. Routine programme monitoring may not. We flag this during scoping so approvals are in place before fieldwork.
From the immunisation card or health record where the family has one, and from caregiver recall where it does not. Each dose is recorded with its source, and reports show document-based and recall-based coverage separately.
Share the indicators, geography and timeline. We will reply with a protocol and sample design.
