Health and Nutrition Survey 1998 (1990 E.C)
Ethiopia, 1998
Identification
ETH_1998_HNS_v01_M
Health and Nutrition Survey 1998 (1990 E.C)
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Ethiopia | ETH |
Other Household Health Survey [hh/hea]
The related surveys were conducted earlier in CSA, 1982-1983 Rural health survey and 1992 National Rural Nutrition survey. However 1998 Health and Nutrition survey is different in terms of content and coverage.
The main objective of the survey is to provide the data that will serve as basis for planning development strategies whose target is to improve the health and nutritional conditions of the population of the country. In addition, the data collected in this survey may also be useful as a base for the surveys that will be conducted in the field of health and nutrition in the future.
The specific objectives of this survey are to collect data/information as follows:
a) That will show the types and distribution of diseases and accidents by region;
b) On prevalence rates of illness and accidents and to identify groups of people who are more affected;
c) That will help to assess the practice of health consultation and type of health service institutions or health providers visited;
d) That will indicate the attitudes or practice of using modem health institutions by population in time of illness;
e) On the practice of maternal health care, vaccinations and supplementation;
f) That will help in identifying groups of children at risk due to not being vaccinated;
g) On childhood illness, vaccination, breastfeeding and supplementation practice of children under five years of age;
h) That throws some light on nutritional status of children through anthropometric measurements and
i) That will show the levels and differentials of fertility.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Region, household, individual
Version
v01: Edited and non-anonymous dataset for internal use only.
1999-10
Scope
The scope was to collect basic data on population, morbidity, accident, treatment and/or consultation, maternal heal care, vaccinations, breastfeeding, supplementation, and nutritional status of children under five. The major items included were: sex, age, highest grade completed, illness, duration of illness and number of days of restricted usual activity due to illness and/or accident(s), external causes of accident(s), status and type of health services institutions or health provider consulted reason for not consulting modern health services institutions. In addition, information on place of delivery; type of attendant assisting during delivery; tetanus toxoid vaccination; and status and duration of supplementation for lactating and pregnant women were collected. Data on childhood vaccinations; childhood illness (diarrhoea, vomiting or cough episode) and ORS treatment; Vitamin A administration; breastfeeding and supplementation of children under five; anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of children aged 3-59 months and fertility were collected.
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Health | World Bank |
| Nutrition | World Bank |
Coverage
The 1998 (1990 E.C.) Health and Nutrition Survey covered both urban and rural parts of the country, except six zones in Somalie Region and two zones in Affar Region.
The 1998 (1990 Ethiopian Calendar, E.C) Health and Nutrition Survey covered the population in the country on a sample basis excluding the non-sedentary population in Affar and Somalie Regions. Moreover, residents of collective quarters, homeless persons and foreigners were not covered in the surveys.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Statistical Agency | Ministry of Finance and Economic Development |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Ethiopia | Funding the study |
Sampling
Sample Design
The 1998 (1990 E.C.) Health and Nutrition Survey covered both urban and rural parts of the country, except six zones in Somalie Region and two zones in Affar Region. For the purpose of the survey the country was divided into three categories. These are rural areas, major urban centers and other urban.
Major Urban Centers (Category I): These are ten regional capitals and five urban centers with a population of 100,000 and over were grouped in this category. Each urban center in this category was the survey domain (reporting level) for which separate survey results for major survey characteristics were reported.
Other Urban Centers (Category II): These are urban centers in the country other than fifteen urban centers in category were grouped in this category. There were four domains (reporting levels) in this category, namely;
a) Other Urban Amhara (excluding Gondar, Bahr Dar, Dessie)
b) Other Urban Oromiya (excluding Jima, Nazreth, Debre Zeit)
c) Other Urban SNNP (excluding Awasa)
d) Other Urban (excluding all urban centers in the major urban centers and those in a, b and c other urban centers.
Other than the nineteen domains (reporting levels) major urban centers other urban centers, three additional domains can be constructed by combining basic domains from the last two categories. These domains are:
i) Urban Amhara
ii) Urban Oromiya
iii) Urban SNNP
A total of 182 Enumeration Areas (EAs) that is 1380 rural and 447 urban enumeration areas were selected to be covered in the survey in all regions. Nevertheless, of the total EAs 19 rural EAs were not covered in the survey due to various reasons.
With regard to the ultimate sampling units, it was planned to cover a total of 45,675 households (34,500 in rural areas and 11,175 households in urban areas) all over the country. The response rate was found to be 98.5 percent i.e. 98.2 percent or 33,895 households in rural areas and 99.7 percent or 11,084 households in urban areas). Only 605 of the selected rural households did not cover by the survey (for details see Tables 2.1 and 2.2).
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 1998 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Statistical Agency | Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ethiopia |
To assist the data collection activities in deployment, supervision and retrieval of completed questionnaires, a total of 123 four-wheel vehicles were used. Table 2.3 shows distribution of the field staff and vehicles by branch statistical offices.
During the survey filedwork, close and regular supervision was undertaken at various levels. At the beginning of field work, the management staff from the head office, visited all Branch Statistical Offices and discussed the objectives, importance of the survey, the expected quality of the data and some other related issues with supervisors and enumerators. Immediately after the commencement of filedwork, close supervision was made by supervisors who made spot checkihg, re-interviewing and a thorough scrutiny of filled questionnaires to ensure that the data collection activities are taking place according to the instructions given. In addition to this, supervision was made by the trainers and Branch Statistical Office heads.
Information was collected by interviewers using both subjective and objective method of data collection. Most of the information collected by the survey were obtained by subjective method that is, by interviewing the head of households as well as household members in the sampled EAs. On the other hand, data on anthropometric measurements were obtained by objective measurements of the height and weight of children under five years in the sampled households. During these anthropometric measurements each interviewer was carrying out these activities working with one assistant because the measurement could not be successfully accomplished by one person; the interviewer. For weight measurement hanging spring dial scale calibrated in 100 grams increments was employed while for height measurements, height measuring board with one fixed end and the other end with a movable piece was used.
Two types of measurement approaches depending on the age of the children were used when measuring the height. These are standing height measurement and recumbent length measurement. Standing height was measured on children aged two years or older while recumbent length was taken on children less than two years of age by laying them down on the measuring board.
Furtheromre, three types of reference periods were adopted in the survey. For illness/morbidity and accident the reference period was the last 14 days. In addition, in order to get a good picture regarding health consultation and treatment the last twelve month's reference period was adopted and for maternal health care visits the reference period was two years Jiior to the survey date.
Data processing
After the completion of the fieldwork the filled-in questionnaires were retrieved from the Branch Statistical Offices for data processing. The first stage data processing activity was manual editing, coding and verification. About 55 editors-coders and 8; verifiers accomplished the coding and verification exercise, and the work lasted for 15 days. Then 28 encoders accomplished data entry to the computer and the work took 15 days. After the data entry was completed, machine editing, data weighting and tabulation activities were carried out by programmers of the Data Processing Departement. The Integrated Microcomputer Processing System (IMPS) software was used for data entry, consistency checking and for the tabluation of the survey results.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Statistical Authority, Ethiopia | Ministry of Finance and Economic Development | www.csa.gov.et | csa@csa.gov.et |
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The Director General is satisfied that all reasonable steps have been taken to prevent the identification of individual respondents
The release of the data will substantially enhance the analytic value of the data that have been collected
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"Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia, Health and Nutrition Survey 1998-1999 (HNS 1998), v01, provided by the National Data Archive. http://www.csa.gov.et/"
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The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
1998, Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eleni Kebede | CSA | elenik@csa.gov.et | http://www.csa.gov.et |
| World Bank Microdata Library | microdata@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_ETH_1998_HNS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Central Statistical Agency | Ministry of Finance and Economic Development | Producing and Dissemination of Data and Metadata |
| Accelerated Data Program | International Household Survey Network | Review of the metadata |
2008-10-24
Metadata version
Version 02 (October 2013). Edited version based on Version 1.1 (December 2010) DDI (DDI_ETH_1998_HNS_v1.1_M) that was done by Central Statistical Agency, Ethiopia and reviewed by Accelerated Data Program, International Household Survey Network.