Measuring the Impact of Fatal Adult Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa; An Annotated Household Questionnaire Papers 90.
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1992
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World Bank
Abstract
This paper describes the developmentand content of a household questionnairedesignedto
measurethe economicimpactof adultmorbidityand mortalityin an African country. The questionnaire
is the main data collectioninstrumentof the research project on "The EconomicImpact of Fatal Adult
Illness due to AIDS and Other Causes in Sub-SaharanAfrica", conductedby a research team from the
WorldBank and the Universityof Dar es Salaam. The main objectivesof theproject are: (1) to measure
the impactof fatal adult illnesson individuals,householdsand communities;and (2) to estimatethe costs
and effects of alternativepoliciesto assist the survivors.
The household questionnairewas adaptedfrom the questionnaireof the World Bank's Living
Standards MeasurementSurvey (LSMS)to measurethe well-beingand copingbehaviorsof individuals
and householdsin responseto fatal illnessamongadults. Key innovationsin the householdquestionnaire
include: adaptationfor a longitudinalresearch design, including "inter-wave" consistencychecks; an
expanded set of questionson acute and chronic illness and their costs; a module on the mortality of
household membersand relatives; a consumptionmodule that allows for seasonality;and collectionof
more data at the individuallevel, to facilitateanalysisof intra-householddistributionof resources
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AIDS, Fetal adult illness, Sub Saharan Africa
Citation
33. Ainsworth, M., Koda, G., Lwihula, G., Mujinja, P., Over, M. and Semali, I., 1992. Measuring the Impact of Fatal Adult Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa; An Annotated Household Questionnaire Papers 90, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement.