Household Surveys
Improving household surveys and use of data to address health inequities in three Asian cities: protocol for the Surveys for Urban Equity (SUE) mixed methods and feasibility study
... This research has a number of strengths. First, it tests the feasibility and costs of novel survey methods (gridded sampling with WorldPop, OSM enumeration) in three Asian cities and explores benefits and draw- backs of ...
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The Link between Extreme Poverty and Young Dependents in the Philippines:Evidence from Household Surveys
... hunger surveys show an increasing trend in hunger incidence among ...quarterly surveys on hunger incidence show an increasing trend in the percentage of families that experienced hunger, reaching ...the ...
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Groups Excluded from ‘Representative’ Household Surveys: An Analysis Based on Remittances Sent and Received in Vietnam
... Grosh, M. E. and P. Glewwe, 1998, Data Watch: The World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys, Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(1), 187-196. Pincus, J. and J. Sender, 2008, ...
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Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys
... General Household Surveys (GHS) data were used, with standardized and normalized self-reported illness and disability concentration indices to assess the distribution of illness and disability across ...
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Measuring access to medicines: a review of quantitative methods used in household surveys
... Household surveys are crucial to provide information on how drug policies affect the individual's well being, as this kind of study allows to evaluate access from the per- spective of the individual, ...
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Satisfaction with faith inspired health care services in Africa: review and evidence from household surveys
... from household surveys to add a further layer to this ...national surveys implemented in approximately 30 African ...the surveys that we examined, there was enough information on the type of ...
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The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital : evidence from Latin American household surveys
... representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration: the potential income that the migrant may have made at ...
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Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?
... Housing is the main asset that most people own. However, the decision whether to buy a house does not necessarily depend, at least in an obvious way, on wealth or income. If for instance rich people are more mobile, they ...
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A descriptive review of the methodologies used in household surveys on medicine utilization
... of household surveys on medicine utilization, summarizing the strategies used in the reviewed studies, quantified in the results section, and presenting directions and recommendations for future studies in ...
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Growth and Income Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
... processing household surveys from many countries with a consistent ...American household surveys is used to compute and analyze a broad set of pro-poor growth ...of household ...
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Comparison between two household surveys on psychotropic drug use in Brazil: 2001 and 2004
... two household surveys on drug use in Brazil, one in 2001 and one in 2005, making it possible for researchers, for the first time ever, to have a timeline comparison using this type of ...
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Growing inequities in maternal health in South Africa: a comparison of serial national household surveys
... Health service data are available to guide improve- ments in the quality of services. The district monitoring systems have been strengthened [2] and the factors contributing to maternal deaths are frequently assessed [4, ...
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Under reporting of inpatient services utilisation in household surveys – a population based study in Hong Kong
... sodes, household surveys have been the only viable and sustainable option to follow utilisation trends over time, the findings from which form the basis for health policy ...recent surveys by ...
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MEASURING DOMESTIC TOURISM AND THE USE OF HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
... from household surveys such as household expenditure surveys or similar ...special surveys (Ecuador, India, European Union countries), some others have used a sub-sample of their ...
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Complex association between rural/urban residence, household wealth and women’s overweight: evidence from 30 cross-sectional national household surveys in Africa
... We used data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) programme from 30 sub-Saharan African countries collected between 2006 and 2012 and extracted informa- tion on women’s anthropometric measurements and background ...
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Equity in Enrolment and Completion in Elementary Schooling in India: Evidence from Recent Household Surveys
... Poverty has been seen to impact on educational attainment in many ways including, (i) through the direct costs of schooling (e,g, through tuition payments, costs of textbooks, uniforms, transportation costs and other ...
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Estimating the current mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child from household surveys
... For many analytic purposes estimates of period mea- sures are of greatest interest because, in contrast to co- hort medians, they allow assessments of recent trends in the timing of the onset of childbearing for specific ...
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Household Structures and Savings: Evidence from Household Surveys
... increase household income more than its ...the household is more difficult, it is impossible to augment household earnings in the same proportion as its ...nuclear household with two children ...
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How Serious is Regional Economic Inequality in Jordan? Evidence from Two National Household Surveys
... by household size, urban ratio, annual per capita income, and economic dependency rate were the main determinants that, positively, affect the income inequality in Jordan with disproportion of the size of ...
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Treatment of Febrile illness with artemisinin combination therapy: prevalence and predictors in five African household surveys
... WHO surveys did not have a special focus on malaria, results are consistent with other surveys focus- ing on ACT coverage ...Such surveys can be recom- mended as affordable strategies to assess the ...
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