The Microdata portal is a web-based platform designed to publish metadata and documentation, and share qualitative and quantitative datasets from APHRC […]
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A team from APHRC met with the Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero to introduce him to our programs and projects […]
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APHRC researchers were at the PAA meeting that ran between the 1st and the 3rd of May 2014 in Boston, […]
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Last week, on the 27th and 28th of February 2014, the Health Challenges and Systems team working on the MIYCN […]
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By Amanda Glassman, co-lead of the APHRC-CGD Data for African Development Working Group, CGD Director of Global Health Policy The […]
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By Milka Njeri, Research Assistant, APHRC Role of men in breastfeeding and child nutrition The Year 2015 is fast approaching […]
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Fewer Declarations: More Accountability and Action Needed Reflections from ICFP 2013 Jessica Brinton, Working Group Program Coordinator, APHRC Earlier this […]
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By Amanda Glassman and Alex Ezeh, Executive Director July 29, 2013 The long-awaited high-level panel report on the post-2015 development agenda called for a “data […]
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By: Justin Sandefur, APHRC-CGD Data for African Development Working Group Member *This blog was originally posted on the Center for Global Development website. View the original […]
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By Blessing Mberu, Research Scientist and Jessica Brinton, Working Group Program Coordinator Earlier this month development experts came together for an online Guardian chat to […]
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The second Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS 2012) Men’s Questionnaire […]
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The second Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS 2012) Household Questionnaire
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The second Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS 2012) Women’s Questionnaire […]
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In the year 2000, APHRC conducted the first Nairobi Cross-Sectional Slum Survey that examined health profiles of urban slum residents comparing them with those of rural residents in Kenya. The 2000 “Population and Health Dynamics in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements” report showed that slum residents have poorer health and social outcomes than residents in more affluent neighborhoods, and perhaps surprisingly, than rural residents. This fact sheet contrasts the report’s urban health findings with subsequent assessments including the recent 2008/09 Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS). […]
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This report documents demographic characteristics and health conditions of Nairobi City’s slum residents based on a representative sample survey of urban informal settlement residents carried out from February to June 2000. The aims of the “Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS)” were to determine the magnitude of the general and health problems facing slum residents, and to compare the demographic and health profiles of slum residents to those of residents of other areas in Kenya. Modeled after the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), which have been conducted in Kenya and many other developing countries, the study was designed to provide comparable data to the 1998 Kenya DHS so that health indicators in the slums could be contrasted with estimates for Nairobi as a whole, rural areas, and other urban settlements. In addition to general indicators measured in the DHS, the NCSS obtained information on a range of other issues including general, health, and reproductive health problems faced by slum residents. […]
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