FRONTIERS Projects | Validation of a Survey-based Approach for Predicting Willingness to Pay for Reproductive Health Services

FRONTIERS PROJECT
Validation of a Survey-based Approach for Predicting Willingness to Pay for Reproductive Health Services

From 2003 to 2004, FRONTIERS and the Cairo Demographic Center developed and tested an instrument to assess clients’ willingness to pay (WTP) for services at six facilities of the Clinical Services Improvement Project (CSI). Based on the survey’s finding that clients would be willing to pay more for services, CSI increased the price for injections of Depo-Provera (DMPA) and then tracked DMPA clients over a four-month period to determine the agreement between stated and actual WTP. The results showed agreement between predicted and actual WTP in about 75 percent of DMPA users; and the main reasons for discontinuation were noneconomic (e.g., problems with the method). WTP surveys are potentially useful tools for predicting client response to price increases, but predictions for methods like DMPA must be adjusted to account for noneconomic reasons for discontinuation.

Location

Egypt

Duration

December 2003–December 2004

Population Council researcher

Nahla Abdel-Tawab

Non-Council collaborators

John Bratt (Family Health International)

Magdi Ibrahim (Cairo Demographic Center)

Mohammed Edrees (Clinical Services Improvement Project [CPI])

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2005
Bratt, John H., Nahla Abdel-Tawab, Magdi A. Ibrahim, and Mohammed Edrees. “Willingness-to-pay for services provided by the Clinical Services Improvement Project (CSI) in Egypt,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 370 KB)