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SAMPLE DESIGN APPENDIX A
A.1 INTRODUCTION
The 2000 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the first comprehensive nationally
representative population and health survey conducted in Ethiopia as part of the worldwide
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project. It was carried out under the aegis of the Ministry of
Health, and implemented by the Central Statistical Authority (CSA). ORC Macro provided technical
assistance through its MEASURE DHS+ project. The survey was funded primarily by the Essential
Services for Health in Ethiopia (ESHE) project through a bilateral agreement between the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Funding was
also provided by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
A.2 SURVEY OBJECTIVES
The principal objective of the Ethiopia DHS is to provide current and reliable data on fertility and
family planning behavior, child mortality, children’s nutritional status, the utilization of maternal and
child health services, and knowledge of HIV/AIDS. This information is essential for informed policy
decisions, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of programs on health in general and reproductive
health in particular at both the national and regional levels.
A long-term objective of the survey is to strengthen the technical capacity of the Central
Statistical Authority to plan, conduct, process, and analyze data from complex national population and
health surveys. Moreover, the 2000 Ethiopia DHS is the first survey of its kind in the country to provide
national and regional estimates on population and health, comparable to similar surveys conducted in
other developing countries. The Ethiopia DHS also adds to the vast and growing international database
on demographic and health variables.
A.3 SAMPLE DOMAINS
The Ethiopia DHS collected demographic and health information from a nationally representative
sample of women and men in the reproductive age groups 15-49 and 15-59, respectively. The primary
focus of the 2000 Ethiopia DHS was to provide estimates of key population and health indicators,
including fertility and mortality rates, for the country as a whole and for urban and rural areas
separately. In addition, the sample was designed to provide estimates of key variables for the nine
regions, 1 namely, Tigray, Affar, Amhara, Oromiya, Somali, Benishangul-Gumuz, Southern Nations,
Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP), Gambela, and Harari, and the two Administrative Council Areas of
Addis Ababa, and Dire Dawa.
1 In the Affar Region only three of the five zones (Zones 1, 3 and 5) were covered, and in the Somali Region
only three of the nine zones (Jijiga, Shinile and Liben) were covered. The population in these two regions relative
to the country as a whole is small and as such the way the sample is drawn from these two regions is unlikely to
affect the reliability of the national and urban-rural estimates. Nevertheless, there may be some bias in the
representativeness of the regional estimates for these two regions primarily because the sample excluded the
nomadic population.
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