Sudan Family Health Survey 2006

General Info

Original or alternative title

Sudan Household Health Survey (SHHS) 2006

Provider

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Geography

Sudan (SDN) (South Sudan, Sudan)

Coverage type

Country

Time period covered

March, 2006 - June, 2006

Data type

Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative - Verbal autopsy

Summary

A combination MICS 3 - PAPFAM survey, there are two reports for this survey, one focusing on Southern Sudan, but including findings for 25 states, the other covering the whole of Sudan. The survey covered education, water and sanitation, cooking fuel, child health, nutrition, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. For child health, it included breastfeeding, treatment of diarrhea, possible pneumonia and treatment, and immunization: measles, polio, TB, tetanus and DPT3.

Survey microdata for Southern Sudan can be requested directly from the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics via their Data Catalog.

Keywords

Abortion, Abortive outcome, Agriculture, Antenatal care, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Complete birth history, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Education, Employment, FFQ, Health care access, Health care expenditures, Health care use, Health literacy, Hookworm disease, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing materials, Immunization, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron, Literacy, Livestock, Malaria, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Maternal care, Maternal morbidity, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Mortality, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Sanitation, Skilled birth attendants, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Trichuriasis, Verbal autopsy, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply

Citation

Contributors

Ministry of Health (South Sudan)

Federal Ministry of Health (Sudan)

Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics and Evaluation

Central Bureau of Statistics (Sudan)

Funders

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

World Health Organization (WHO)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

World Food Programme (WFP)

League of Arab States

Suggested citation

Ministry of Health (Southern Sudan), Federal Ministry of Health (Sudan), Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE), Central Bureau of Statistics (Sudan). Sudan Family Health Survey 2006.