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Final report on nutrition & mortality survey of Bambasi woreda of Assosa zone of Benishangul Gumz region, 2011

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Id	EPHI-DS0382
Name	Final report on nutrition & mortality survey of Bambasi woreda of Assosa zone of Benishangul Gumz region, 2011
Format	.CSV
Coverage Location	Zonal
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	This survey was conducted in the Benishangul Gumz region of Assosa zone in Bambasi woreda by Goal Ethiopia among selected clusters of household children aged between 6 and 59 months. The objective of this survey was to estimate the prevalence of acute and chronic malnutrition, examine the current health status of the survey population by considering mortality and morbidity rates and child vitamin A supplementation and vaccination status, and assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months. The findings of this survey revealed the following major points. The prevalence of acute malnutrition based on weight-for-height z-scores was 6.9 % of them were classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), 6.5 % as moderate acute malnutrition, and 0.3 % of children were severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The crude mortality rate and under-five mortality rates were estimated at 0.15 and 0.03 deaths/10,000/day, respectively. About 40.9 % of the children suffered from diarrhea, 16.7 % from cough (ARI), and 24.2 % from fever. The percentage of children vaccinated against measles by card, TB (BCG) by scar, and who received vitamin A in the last 6 months was 17.7 %, 63.2 %, and 83.2 % of the respondents, respectively.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Nutrition malnutrition global acute malnutrition acute malnutrition vaccination measles BCG survey Bambasi woreda Assosa zone Benishangul Gumz region
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2012-12-15
Date Data Collection End	2012-12-30
Title	Final report on nutrition & mortality survey of Bambasi woreda of Assosa zone Benishangul Gumz region, 2011
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2000
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	This dataset on Standard nutrition survey in Bambasi woredas of Assosa zone of Benishangul Gumz region conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach among 530 children between December 15th to 30th, 2009. The dataset captures information on the prevalence of global acute malnutrition or nutritional status (level of wasting) by measuring MUAC and or Oedema, morbidity status, health-seeking conditions, child vaccination, and supplementation includes vaccinated against measles, BCG (TB), and Vitamin A supplementation, household characteristics including the condition of food security, accessibility to water, and community discussion which includes the level of access to health facilities, condition of the pasture, availability of water for livestock, and the condition of livestock. Generally, the objective of the survey was to estimate the prevalence of acute and chronic malnutrition, examine the current health status of the survey population by considering mortality and morbidity rates and child vitamin A supplementation and vaccination status, and assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months (or 65-<110cm in height). The dataset also incorporated the households' main livelihood, community discussion regarding health facility time, and water availability for livestock.
Dataset study design	Cross-sectional survey
Date Data Archived	2021-07-10
Date Data Cataloged	2022-03-17
Data Generating Unit	GOAL Ethiopia
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/382
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