Rwanda Interim Demographic and Health Survey 2007-2008
Rwanda, 2007 - 2008
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RWA-NISR-RIDHS-2008-v1.0
Rwanda Interim Demographic and Health Survey 2007-2008
RIDHS 2007-2008
Enquête Démographique et de Santé 2007-2008
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Rwanda | RWA |
Demographic and Health Survey [hh/dhs]
The Demographic and Health Survey 2008 is the fourth round of DHS Surveys. Previously the first was conducted in 1992,the second in 2000 and the third in 2005. The DHS Surveys are designed by Macro International and implemented by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. The DHS was designed to monitor various indicators on demography and health.
The 2007-08 Rwanda Interim Demographic and Health Survey (RIDHS) carried out from December 15, 2007 to April 20, 2008 is a follow-up to the three previous Demographic and Health Surveys undertaken in 1992, 2000, and 2005. A total of 7,377 households were successfully interviewed for this interim survey. In the households
surveyed, 7,528 women age 15-49 were eligible for the individual interview and 7,313 were successfully interviewed. Thus, the response rate for women was 97 percent. The male survey was conducted in all of the households surveyed. A total of 7,168 men age 15-59 were eligible for the individual interview. Of these men, 6,837 were successfully
interviewed, for a response rate of 95 percent for men.
The Government of Rwanda has just completed the 2007-2008 Rwanda Interim and Health Survey (RIDHS) to obtain database designed to provide reliable indicators to monitor and assess the implementation the country's sector programs and policies,the Poverty Reduction Strategy, Vision 2020 and commitments its has undertaken at the international level, particular in the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
Sample survey data [ssd]
Household, individual (including adult women and men aged 15-59 years)
Version
v 1.0 Final dataset anonymized for public distribution
2009-04
Scope
The scope of the Rwanda Interim Demographic and Health Survey(RIDHS) has the following items:
-HOUSEHOLD: this questionnaire was used to list usual members and visitors in selected households.In addition ,some basic information was collected on the characteristics of each person listed such as sex,age,education and relationship to the head of household.The main objective of the household questionnaire was to identify women and men who were eligible for individual interview.
-WOMEN: Women's questionnaire was used to collect information on women of productive age ( 15-49 years) and this includes: background characteristics, marital status,birth history,knowledge and use of family planning methods,fertility preferences,antenatal and deliver care,breastfeeding practices,vaccinations and childhood illness.
-MEN: The Men’s Questionnaire was administered to all men age 15-59 years living in the selected
households. The Men’s Questionnaire collected information similar to that of the Women’s
Questionnaire, with the only difference being that it did not include birth history or questions on maternal
and child health or nutrition. In addition, the Men’s Questionnaire also collected information on
circumcision.
Coverage
The sample was designed to provide estimates of the indicators at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for five regions: Kigali city,Eastern Province,Western Province Northern Province and South Province.
Lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data.
Household, individual (including adult women aged 15-49 years and men aged 15-59 years).
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) | Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (Minecofin) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Health | Government of Rwanda | Implimenting agency of health related issues |
| Ministry of Local Government | Government of Rwanda | In charge of Local authorities from District level to Villages |
| Micro International | Technical support |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| United States Agency for International Development | USAID/RWANDA |
| The Global Fund to fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria | GFTAM |
| The Department for International Development of United Kingdom | DFID |
| United Nations Development Program | UNDP |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| United States Agency for International Development | Governmet of America | Funding |
| The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria | Funding | |
| The Department for International Development of The United Kingdom | Government of United King Dom | Fundung |
| The United Nations Development Program | UN agency | Funding |
| The European Commission | Funding |
Sampling
The sample for the RIDHS is a two-stage stratified area sample. Clusters are the primary sampling units and are constituted from enumeration areas (EA). The EA were defined in the 2002 General Population and Housing Census (RGPH) (SNR, 2005).
The survey covered a representative sample of women between the ages of 15 and 49 and men between the ages of 15 and 59.
These enumeration areas provided the master frame for the drawing of 250 clusters (187 rural and 63 urban), selected with a representative probability proportional to their size. Only 249 of these clusters were surveyed, because one cluster located in a refugee camp had to be eliminated from the sample. A strictly proportional sample allocation would have resulted in a very low number of urban households in certain provinces. It was therefore necessary to slightly over-sample urban areas in order to survey a sufficient number of households to produce reliable estimates for urban areas. The second stage involved selecting a sample of households in these enumeration areas. In order to adequately guarantee the accuracy of the indicators, the total number drawn was limited to 30 households per cluster. Because of the nonproportional distribution of the sample among the different strata and the fact that the number of households was set for each cluster, weighting was used to ensure the validity of the sample at both national and provincial levels.
The sample for the 2007-08 RIDHS covered the population residing in ordinary households across the country. A national sample of 7,469 households (1,863 in urban areas and 5,606 in rural areas) was selected. The sample was first stratified to provide adequate representation from urban and rural areas as well as all the four provinces and the city of Kigali, the nation’s capital,
The response rate was high for both men (95.4 percent) and women (97.5 percent).
Weighting was used to ensure the validity of the sample at both national and provincial levels. All women age 15-49 years who were either usual residents of the selected household or visitors.
Survey instrument
Three questionnaires were used in the 2007-08 RIDHS:
-The Household Questionnaire,
-The Women’s Questionnaire, and
-The Men’s Questionnaire.
The content of these questionnaires was based on model questionnaires developed by the MEASURE DHS project.
Data were entered using CSPro, a program developed jointly by the United States Census Bureau, the ICF Macro MEASURE DHS program, and Serpro S.A. All questionnaires were entered twice to eliminate as many data entry errors as possible from the files. In addition, a quality control program was used to detect data collection errors for each team. This information was shared with field teams during supervisory visits to improve data quality. The data entry and internal consistency verification phase of the survey was completed on May 14, 2008.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-12 | 2008-04 | 4 months |
in 2007
- Face-to-face [f2f]
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda | MINECOFIN | NISR |
In main survey 4 supervisors and 26 team leaders and field editors.
Staff responsible for the survey at the National Institute of Statistics, in collaboration with the technical team, recruited 70 people to participate in data collection. Training included two phases, theoretical and practical. Three weeks of training were provided, from November 20 to December 11,2007, including three days of field practicum in urban and rural areas not selected for the survey. After the training, the field staff were divided into 13 teams, each with a team leader, a supervisor, and three interviewers. A laboratory technician from the National Malaria Control Program was included on each team for the anemia and malaria diagnostic tests. The laboratory technicians were medically qualified to take blood samples and conduct the anemia and malaria test under the supervision of the PNILP technical team with assistance from ICF Macro. Data collection began on December 15, 2007 in the area of the city of Kigali. This location made it possible to closely monitor the teams before they were dispatched to more distant areas. After two weeks, all teams except one that was needed remaining to complete the work in Kigali were deployed to their respective work zones. Data collection was completed on April 20, 2008.
Data processing
Data entry began on January 7, 2008, three weeks after the beginning of data collection activities in the field. Data were entered by a team of five data processing personnel recruited and trained by staff from ICF Macro. The data entry team was reinforced during this work with an additional staffer. Completed questionnaires were periodically brought in from the field to the National Institute of Statistics in Kigali, where assigned staff checked them and coded the open-ended questions. Next, the questionnaires were sent to the data entry staff.
Data appraisal
Sampling errors for the 2007-08 RIDHS are calculated for selected variables considered to be of primary interest for woman’s survey and for man’s surveys, respectively. The results are presented in this appendix for the country as a whole, for urban and rural areas, and for each of the five provinces. For each variable, the type of statistic (mean, proportion, or rate) and the base population are given in Table B.1. Tables B.2 to B.9 present the value of the statistic (R), its standard error (SE), the number of unweighted (N) and weighted (WN) cases, the design effect (DEFT), the relative standard error (SE/R), and the 95 percent confidence limits (R±2SE), for each variable. The DEFT is considered undefined when the standard error considering simple random sample is zero (when the estimate is close to 0 or 1). In the case of the total fertility rate, the number of unweighted cases is not relevant because there is no knownunweighted value for woman-years of exposure to childbearing.
There are several methods that can be used for the direct calculation of infant and child mortality rates, e.g., the period approach, the true cohort approach, and the synthetic cohort approach. It is beyond the scope of this report to describe the differences between the main approaches, but a technical explanation can be found in the Guide to DHS Statistics (Rutstein and Rojas, 2003). The Demographic and Health Surveys uses the synthetic cohort approach, which calculates mortality probabilities for small age segments, and then combines these component probabilities for the full age segment of interest. The advantage to this method is that mortality rates can be calculated for periods close to the survey date while still respecting the principle of correspondence. The data needed for the calculations are in the birth history section of the Woman’s Questionnaire and include the month and year of birth for all of a woman’s children, the children’s gender and survival status, and the current age at the time of the interview if the child is living, or age at death if the child is dead.
The following age-specific mortality measures are calculated from information collected in the birth history data:
Neonatal mortality (NN): the probability of dying within the first month of life;
Postneonatal mortality (PNN): the probability of dying after the first month of life but before exact age one year;
Infant mortality (1q0): the probability of dying between birth and exact age one year; Child mortality (4q1): the probability of dying between exact age one and exact age five;
Under-five mortality (5q0): the probability of dying between birth and exact age five.
All measures are expressed per 1,000 live births, except for child mortality, which is expressed per 1,000 children surviving to 12 months of age.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| National Institiute of Statistics of Rwanda | Minecofin | info@statistics.gov.rw |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | NISR encourage sharing and use of survey data.However, users must meet the conditions as specified in the access condition and requirement.Please do not redistribute data to other institutions without the explicite consent of NISR authority. |
NISR data is free to all users but is available only to not commercial purposes.To obtain access to the data please contact the relevant person listed.All publications from the use of the data must include in acknowledgement to the survey and NISR.
The following statement must be used as citation:
Ministry of Health (MOH) [Rwanda], National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), and ICF Macro. 2009. Rwanda Interim Demographic and Health Survey 2007-08. Calverton, Maryland, U.S.A.: MOH, NISR, and ICF Macro.
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The NISR provides these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied.NISR accepts no responsability and/or implication of any action resulting from the use of these data.
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director General | NISR | info@statistics.gov.rw | www.statistics.gov.rw |
Metadata production
DDI-RWA-NISR-RIDHS-2008-v1.0
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda | NISR | Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning | Documentation |
2012-06-27
Metadata version
Version 1.0 ( 2012 )