Series information
The Sudan Household Health Survey (SHHS) was carried out by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) representing the Government of National Unity (GoNU), and the Ministry of Health (MoH) together with the Southern Sudan Commission for Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE), both representing the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS). The survey was carried out in collaboration with several ministries and institutions such as the Ministry of International Cooperation, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Social welfare and women and child affairs, National Population Council, National Council for Child Welfare (NCCW) and National Water Corporation. Financial and technical support was provided by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), AGFUND and OPEC Fund through the Pan Arab Project for Family Health (PAPFAM), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the League of Arab States (ALS).
So instead of having multiple surveys supported by single agency, the SHHS compiled the efforts of all agencies to conduct a unified survey that has met the interests of all stakeholders as its contents is a hybrid of family health survey of the Arab League, MICS, Food Security and Nutrition surveys. The planning and the implementation structures of SHHS i.e. Steering Committee, Technical Committee, Coordination Body and the Technical Working Group represented a wide group of ministries, institutions, agencies concerned to guarantee the best possible participatory process to guide the survey and ensure the quality of work.
The SHHS provides valuable information on the situation of household, children and women in Sudan. The survey was initiated, in large part, on the need to have a base line national data to monitor progress towards goals and targets emanating from national plans and international agreements: the MDGs, and the Plan of Action of A World Fit For Children (WFFC), the Arab World Fit for Children; the Arab charter for child rights; and the rest of the agreements committed by the country.
Data constraints in Sudan are severe, both in terms of quality and comprehensiveness. The SHHS is the first nationally representative survey in two decades covering key social development indicators. It is one of the first projects jointly implemented by the GoNU and GoSS following the CPA. The national and state-level data generated by the SHHS will help in assessing the current status of progress towards some of the key MDG goals and targets, assisting in monitoring of MDG commitments and in informed decision making, sound policy formulation and development planning required to accelerate progress towards the MDGs. They will also provide the key information required by the GoNU and GoSS for the preparation of the 2007 WFFC progress report and the 2007 MDG report.
Abstract
The Sudan Household Health Survey 2nd round (SHHS2) 2010 provides up-to-date information on the situation of children and women and measures of key indicators that allow countries to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments.
The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office were then harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, to create a comparable version with the 2006 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 sample harmonized and disseminated by the Economic research represents Northern Sudan only.