Harmonized Household Health Surveys, HHHS 2006, Sudan

The Sudan Household Health Survey (SHHS), conducted in 2006, is the first household survey covering Northern and Southern Sudan in two decades. The primary objectives of the 2006 Sudan Household Health Survey were: - To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children and women in Sudan. - To furnish data needed for monitoring progress toward goals established by the Millennium Development Goals: the goals of “A World Fit For Children”, “Programme of Action” adopted at the “International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)”, and other internationally agreed upon goals, as a basis for action. - To contribute to the improvement of data and monitoring systems in Sudan and to strengthen technical expertise in the design, implementation, and analysis of such systems. - To strengthen and build the institutional capacity of government partners for the upcoming 2008 Census and large scale surveys. The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office were then harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, to create a comparable version with the 2010 Household Health Survey in Sudan. Harmonization at this stage only included unifying variables' names, labels and some definitions. See: Sudan 2006 & 2010- Variables Mapping & Availability Matrix.pdf provided in the external resources for further information on the mapping of the original variables on the harmonized ones, in addition to more indications on the variables' availability in both survey years and relevant comments. The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/103