What types of data will you collect for a new community profile?

You will learn much more about data collection techniques and data analysis in Study Session 12. Here we will focus on what needs to be included in preparing your community profile at kebele level for planning, implementing and evaluating health programmes. We gave a general overview of the data in Section 11.2, but here we are going to discuss these data types in detail. The knowledge and skills you develop here will be expanded and reinforced in Study Sessions 12 to 15.

The types of data that we will describe in this study session are:

• Demographic data
• Epidemiological data
• Health service data
• Data on knowledge, attitudes and practice (also known as behavioural data)
• Data on physical characteristics in the environment.