Multiple indicator cluster survey 2003 in Afghanistan: outdated sampling frame and the effect of sampling weights on estimates of maternal and child health coverage.
Due to an urgent need for information on the coverage of health service for women and children after the fall of Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) was conducted in 2003 using the outdated 1979 census as the sampling frame. When 2004 pre-census data became avai...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Health, Population & Nutrition Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 388 - 400 |
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BioMed Central
Aug2011
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