Precision, time, and cost: a comparison of three sampling designs in an emergency setting (2008)

Article published in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

FANTA, in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children United States (SC/US), and Ohio State University, applied Lot Quality Assurance Sampling methods to develop and test three new sampling designs to respond to the data collection priorities of emergency settings. These alternative sampling designs have been field tested in Sudan and Ethiopia, where they were shown to provide rapid and statistically reliable methods for assessing the prevalence of global acute malnutrition, in addition to a number of other child- and household-level indicators. This article reported on the FANTA and SC/US field test in Sudan.