Somalia - Somali Health and Demographic Survey 2020

The Somali Health and Demographic Survey (SHDS) is the first of its kind conducted in Somalia. The survey provides valid, reliable and representative national and sub-national data, on mortality, fertility, birth spacing, maternal and child health, nutrition and gender-based violence. This data is critical to the development of sound national and sub-national evidence-based policy, to effective planning and service delivery, and to the monitoring and evaluation of performance by service providers and development projects and programmes.

You can get the microdata at https://microdata.nbs.gov.so/index.php/catalog/50/study-description

Please consult the official informs: Somalia and Somaliland

Sample design

The sample for the SHDS was designed to provide estimates of key indicators for the country as a whole, for each of the eighteen pre-war geographical regions, which are the country’s first-level administrative divisions, as well as separately for urban, rural and nomadic areas. With the exception of Banadir region, which is considered fully urban, each region was stratified into urban, rural and nomadic areas, yielding a total of 55 sampling strata. All three strata of Lower Shabelle and Middle Juba regions, as well as the rural and nomadic strata of Bay region, were completely excluded from the survey due to security reasons. A final total of 47 sampling strata formed the sampling frame.