Rapid Assessment Report of Swat District, NWFP, Pakistan

2016

2013 This report has not been subject to a formal external review via IFPRI’s Publications Review Committee. The report is circulated in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The views and opinions contained in the report are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by IFPRI or USAID. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index:

2011

Achakzai also worked on data entry.

This paper identifies new opportunities for innovation and expansion on current survey practice in the design of a new household panel survey, including an increased use of new and mobile technologies, more frequent data collection, modified clustering, and use of non-traditional survey measures such as administrative data, planned missing/matrix sampling questionnaire design, real-time data collection, and biomarkers. These innovative data collection methods require rethinking traditional panel survey methods, but can help reduce respondent burden and expand on current social science knowledge. The paper concludes that a new household panel survey would improve knowledge about important social, economic and health issues facing the US, and would provide a useful test bed for new hypotheses and innovative methods of data collection.

2004

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Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2001

Background. Estimates of US childhood asthma prevalence were affected by the 1997 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) redesign. In 1997, only 5.5% of children were estimated to have asthma compared with 7.5% in 1995. The contribution of the survey redesign to this reported decline is unknown. Objective. To examine the impact of the NHIS 1997 redesign on childhood asthma prevalence estimates. Methods. In 1988, 50% of children from the core NHIS participated in a Child Health Supplement (CHS). The CHS questions differ from those in the core NHIS and are similar to the new asthma questions used in the 1997 NHIS. First, childhood asthma prevalence estimates from the 1988 core NHIS and the CHS were directly compared. A second comparison was limited to the sample participating in both the core NHIS and the CHS. For this sample, the percent difference between core NHIS and CHS estimates was calculated for 6 race/age strata (black and white, ages 0-4, 5-10, and 11-17 years). The 1997 estimates for each stratum were adjusted by these differences, and a new adjusted 1997 estimate was produced using the 1997 population distribution for each stratum. Results. The first method resulted in an 18.6% difference between asthma prevalence estimates from the 1988 core NHIS and CHS (5.1% vs. 4.3%). Simply inflating the 1997 asthma prevalence estimate of 5.5% by 18.6% yielded an adjusted estimate of 6.5%. The second stratification method produced an adjusted 1997 asthma prevalence estimate of 7.3%. Conclusion. The redesigned NHIS likely produces lower asthma prevalence estimates than the previous NHIS. Adjusting the 1997 estimate to compensate for the redesign suggests that childhood asthma prevalence has plateaued since 1995, not declined.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has become one of the principal sources of international data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, nutrition, mortality, and HIV/AIDS. The quality of this data is of utmost importance to researchers worldwide. Because survey methodology has a major impact on data quality, one of the objectives of the MEASURE DHS project is to advance the methodology and procedures used to carry out national-level surveys. This will improve the accuracy and depth of information relied on by policymakers and program managers in developing countries. The topics in the DHS Methodological Reports series are selected by MEASURE DHS staff in consultation with the U.S. Agency for International Development. While data quality is a main topic of the reports, they also examine issues of sampling, questionnaire comparability, survey procedures, and methodological approaches. Some reports are updates of previously published reports. This report deals with the quality of age and date reporting in DHS surveys. Most of the indicators produced by DHS surveys depend on accurate reporting of ages of women and children, as well as dates when events occurred. From 1985 to 2003, 141 DHS surveys of households and women were carried out in 66 countries. These data are examined here. It is hoped that the DHS Methodological Reports series will be useful to researchers and survey specialists, particularly those engaged in work in developing countries.

Objective: To assess the psychological and behavioural effects in children from conflict torn district of Swat.