A facility-based cross-sectional survey was conducted in 705 health facilities among two city administrations and nine regional administrations of Ethiopia in 2016. The health facility assessment survey was carried out to fill key data gaps in service delivery and readiness for the annual health sector review and planning process. Data were collected using a pretested facility inventory questionnaire (WHO SARA standard tool) by highly trained survey teams. A descriptive analysis of SARA data was conducted using the standard core indicators (SARA automated tool for results graphs and tables) and both tracer indicators and composite indicators were generated. All data entry and editing programs were written using CSPro.  The finding of the assessment showed that:  (1) the capacity of the health facility to provide general health services showed that the mean availability of tracer item was available in six of ten health facilities; (2) The availability of most essential drugs was below 50 percent;  (3) The assessment also shows that the general service readiness index was 54 percent, implying that 54 percent of all health facilities, excluding health posts are ready to provide the general health services; (4) Among all health facilities excluding health posts, ninety-four percent of them offered family planning services; (5) Antenatal care services (ANC) were available in 80 percent of Ethiopian health facilities, and (6) Finally, 55 percent of health facilities excluding health posts provided delivery service and availability of child immunization services was generally high (80 percent) except facilities in Addis Ababa (21 percent).

• Stratified Random Sampling
• cross-sectional survey
• health facility assessment
• Region
• maternal and newborn services
• general Service Readiness
• Family planning
• intervention
• Diagnostic
• antenatal care
• child immunization
• planning
• Anti-retroviral treatment (ART)
• HIV/AIDS
• tuberculosis
• policy
• Ethiopia

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This dataset is produced by a health facility assessment survey amongst the 705 health facilities from nine regional states and two city administrations of Ethiopia conducted in 2016. The dataset captures information on general service readiness that measures the availability of equipment and supplies necessary to provide services within five domains: basic amenities, basic equipment, standard precautions, diagnostic testing, and essential medicines by the surveyed health facilities. This health facility survey dataset also consists of information on service-specific availability and readiness in maternal health (FP, ANC, BEm/EONC, comprehensive obstetric care), child and adolescent health, communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria), non-communicable diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular, chronic respiratory, cervical cancer, …etc), Neglected tropical diseases(NTD), public health emergency management (PHEM) services, surgery, and blood transfusion services at health facilities in Ethiopia. The data was collected by highly trained survey teams using pretested facility inventory questionnaire (WHO SARA standard tool) and computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI). The survey also used to obtain information on how the facilities are prepared to provide each of the priority services provided to the population. Generally, this facility-based cross-sectional survey data is used to obtain insight on service availability and readiness at the national and regional level in both for health care in general and for a range of specific services.

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