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Standard Nutrition survey in Abaya woreda of Borena Zone of Oromia region, 2011

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Id	EPHI-DS0391
Name	Standard Nutrition survey in Abaya woreda of Borena Zone of Oromia region, 2011
Format	. SAV
Coverage Location	Zonal
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	This survey was conducted in the Oromia region of Abaya woreda in Borena zone conducted by Goal Ethiopia among in selected clusters of household children aged of 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 to assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months. The findings of this survey revealed that; The prevalence of acute malnutrition based on weight-for-height z-scores was 4.8 % of them were classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), 4.6 % of them were moderate and 0.2 % of children were severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The crude mortality rate and the under five children mortality was 0.18 and 0.42 deaths per death/10,000/day. About 24.5 % of the children suffered from diarrhea, 39.1 % from cough (ARI), and 17.3 % 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 were 23.4 %, 79.2 %, and 44.7 % of the respondents respectively.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Nutrition malnutrition global acute malnutrition acute malnutrition vaccination measles BCG survey Abaya woreda Borena zone Oromia region
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2011-02-25
Date Data Collection End	2011-03-10
Title	Standard Nutrition survey in Abaya woreda of Borena Zone of Oromia region, 2011
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2000
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	This dataset on a preliminary nutrition survey in Abaya woredas of Borena Zone of Oromia region was conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach among 479 children and 408 households from February 25th to March 10th, 2011. The dataset captures information on the prevalence of global acute malnutrition or nutritional status by measuring MUAC, morbidity status, health-seeking condition, child vaccination, and supplementation includes vaccinated against measles, BCG (TB), 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 household’s 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	2022-04-30
Data Generating Unit	GOAL Ethiopia
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/391
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