Clustering and meso-level variables in cross-sectional surveys: an example of food aid during the Bosnian crisis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Focus groups, rapid assessment procedures, key informant interviews and institutional reviews of local health services provide valuable insights on health service resources and performance. A long-standing challenge of health planning is to combine this sort of qualitative evidence in a unified analysis with quantitative evidence from household surveys. A particular challenge in this regard is to take account of the neighbourhood or clustering effects, recognising that these can be informative or incidental.

Methods

An example of food aid and food sufficiency from the Bosnian emergency (1995-96) illustrates two Lamothe cluster-adjustments of the Mantel Haenszel (MH) procedure, one assuming a fixed odds ratio and the other allowing for informative clustering by not

SUBMITTER: Andersson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3332559 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature