{"type":"survey","doc_desc":{"title":"CMR_2003_PETS_v01_M","idno":"DDI_CMR_2003_PETS_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"Antonina Redko","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"DECDG, World Bank","role":"DDI documentation "}],"prod_date":"2011-09-20","version_statement":{"version":"v01 (September 2011)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"CMR_2003_PETS_v01_M","title":"Public Expenditure Tracking Survey in Health 2003","alt_title":"PETS 2003"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"National Institute of Statistics, Cameroon","affiliation":""}],"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Hooman Dabidian","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"hdabidian@worldbank.org ","uri":""},{"name":"Cindy Audiguier","affiliation":"World Bank","email":" caudiguier@worldbank.org","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Public Expenditure Tracking Survey","series_info":"A Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) is a diagnostic tool used to study the flow of public funds from the center to service providers. It has successfully been applied in many countries around the world where public accounting systems function poorly or provide unreliable information. The PETS has proven to be a useful tool to identify and quantify the leakage of funds. The PETS has also served as an analytical tool for understanding the causes underlying problems, so that informed policies can be developed. Finally, PETS results have successfully been used to improve transparency and accountability by supporting \"power of information\" campaigns.\n\nPETS are often combined with Quantitative Service Delivery Surveys (QSDS) in order to obtain a more complete picture of the efficiency and equity of a public allocation system, activities at the provider level, as well as various agents involved in the process of service delivery. \n\nWhile most of PETS and QSDS have been conducted in the health and education sectors, a few have also covered other sectors, such as justice, Early Childhood Programs, water, agriculture, and rural roads.\n\nIn the past decade, about 40 PETS and QSDS have been implemented in about 30 countries. While a large majority of these surveys have been conducted in Africa, which currently accounts for 66 percent of the total number of studies, PETS\/QSDS have been implemented in all six regions of the World Bank (East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa)."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Health Systems & Financing","vocab":"World Bank","uri":""}],"abstract":"Despite recent economic growth, poverty remains prevalent in Cameroon. A national governance plan was implemented to fight corruption, reduce poverty and increase the efficiency of public expenditures, with a priority placed on access to basic services. \t\n\nIn order to assess the efficacy of this plan, a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey was carried out to evaluate delays in budget execution of non-wage expenditures to local service providers, to assess leakages at different levels in the service provider supply chain and procurement process and evaluate clients' service satisfaction. \t\n\nThe survey covered 36 districts, 143 health facilities and 2952 patients.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2003","end":"2003","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Cameroon","abbreviation":"CMR"}],"data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"The survey was carried out in all 10 provincial health delegations and the two main urban areas, Douala and Yaound\u00e9. \t\n\nStratified multistage sampling technique was used. Three departments were selected in each province. Twelve health facilities were chosen in each department including the district hospital and one private clinic. \t\n\nFor the patient survey, six clients were selected per \"zone de d\u00e9nombrement\" in each district for the main urban areas and three in others.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"cit_req":"Use of the survey data must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:\n\n- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)\n- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation\n- the survey reference number.","conditions":"Public Use File","disclaimer":"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."}}},"data_files":[],"variables":[],"variable_groups":[]}