DSS and DHS: longitudinal and cross-sectional viewpoints on child and adolescent mortality in Ethiopia
Open Access
- 27 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Population Health Metrics
- Vol. 5 (1) , 12
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-5-12
Abstract
In countries where routine vital registration data are scarce, Demographic Surveillance Sites (DSS: locally defined populations under longitudinal surveillance for vital events and other characteristics) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS: periodic national cluster samples responding to cross-sectional surveys) have become standard approaches for gathering at least some data. This paper aims to compare DSS and DHS approaches, seeing how they complement each other in the specific instance of child and adolescent mortality in Ethiopia.Keywords
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