Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey, September - October 2021
Kigoma Refugee Camps: Mtendeli

Tanzania, 2021

Reference ID

TZA_2021_SENS-Mtendeli_v01_M

Producer(s)

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Minister of Health, Tanzania Food and Nutrition centre, Tanzania Red Cross Society, Medecins sans Frontieres, World Vision, Medical Teams International

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Feb 16, 2023

Last modified

Feb 16, 2023

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Identification

Survey ID number

TZA_2021_SENS-Mtendeli_v01_M

Title

Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey, September - October 2021

Subtitle

Kigoma Refugee Camps: Mtendeli

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Tanzania	TZA

Study type

Demographic and Health Survey [hh/dhs]

Abstract

The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) were conducted in three refugee camps located in Kigoma region, the western part of Tanzania. There were a total of 207,394 refugees residing in the three camps, where among them 62% are Burundians, 37.9% are Congolese and a small proportion of refugees from other nationalities (Yemen, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and others). A total of 45,704 under five children are located in the three camps with 4,999 in Mtendeli camp.

The main objective of the SENS was to assess the general health and nutrition status of refugees and formulate workable recommendations for appropriate nutritional and public health interventions. The survey was conducted using a two-stage cluster sampling. This study is an anonymized version of the collected data.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Individuals and households

Version

Version Description

Version 2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data

Version Date

2022-11-30

Scope

Notes

The scope of the survey includes:

Children between 6-59 months: Demographic profiling, nutritional status, anthropometry, health and anaemia.
Children between 0-23 months: Nutritional status, breastfeeding conditions.
Women between 15-49 years: anthropometry, health and anaemia
Households: food security, mosquito net coverage, demographic profiling.

Topics

Topic
Food security
Basic Needs
Health and Nutrition
Child Protection
Food Distribution

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Kakonko district

Universe

All refugees living in camp

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	UN
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)	UN
Minister of Health
Tanzania Food and Nutrition centre
Tanzania Red Cross Society
Medecins sans Frontieres
World Vision
Medical Teams International

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The survey was conducted using a two-stage cluster sampling. The sample size calculation for the refugee population living in Mtendeli was based on the PROGRESS population data. The sample size for children 6-59 months was calculated using the Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions.

Weighting

Sample weights were calculated for each of the data files. Sample weights for the household data were computed as the inverse of the probability of selection of the household, computed at the sampling domain level (urban/rural within each region). The household weights were adjusted for non-response at the domain level, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of households equals the total unweighted number of households.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2021-09-06	2021-10-10

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name
See primary investigators

Data Collection Notes

Data were collected using mobile phones operated by the Android operating system (LG) and the ODK application. During supervision in the field and at the end of each day, the survey consultant and the supervisors manually check the phone questionnaires for completeness, consistency and accuracy. This check also used to provide feedback to the teams to improve data collection as the surveys progressed. Children data were downloaded and analysed on a daily basis with the ENA software (ENA for SMART 2011, July 9th, 2015). The SMART plausibility report was generated daily in order to identify any problems with anthropometric data collection such as flags and digit preference for age, height and weight, to improve the quality of the anthropometric data collected as the survey was on-going.

A quick check on Haemoglobin concentration among children and non-pregnant women was conducted during quality check. This was done by checking the disparities of number of subjects with low Hb level amongst the teams and feedback was provided for necessary correction among blood sample takers where applicable.

Data Access

Citation requirements

UNHCR, UNICEF, Minister of Health, Tanzania Food and Nutrition centre, Tanzania Red Cross Society, Medecins sans Frontieres, World Vision, Medical Teams International (2021). Tanzania: Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) in Kigoma Refugee Camps: Mtendeli - Sept/October 2021. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_TZA_2021_SENS-Mtendeli_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
UN Refugee Agency	UN	Metadata producer
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2023-02-13

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (February 2023): This metadata was downloaded from the UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home) and it is identical to UNHCR version (UNHCR_TZA_2021_SENS_Mtendeli_v2.1). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document ID and Survey ID.

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