Wajir County department of medical services, public health and sanitation in collaboration
with UNICEF and Save the Children successfully conducted Integrated Health and Nutrition
survey in Wajir North sub-county herein referred as agro-pastoral livelihood zone. The
overall objective was to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition among children 6 – 59 months
and women of reproductive age following a significant deterioration of nutrition status
observed in the SMART survey carried out in July 2017.
The survey applied a two stage cluster sampling using SMART methodology with the clusters
being selected using the probability proportional to population size (PPS). A total of 636 and
797 households and children respectively were reached. Overall plausibility check was
excellent at 2%.
Unit of Analysis
Household/Individuals
Version
Version Description
Version: V001
Scope
Topics
Topic
Nutrition
Keywords
Keyword
Smart Survey
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
County level
Universe
County
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
Name
Ministry of Health
Producers
Name
Ministry of Health
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name
Ministry of Health
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
Two stage cluster sampling based probability proportional to Population size (PPS)