Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Community Household Survey Utilization of EPI Cluster Sampling Style

1Principal, Pushagiri College of Nursing, Thiruvalla

2Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, MAHE, Manipal

*Corresponding Author: Renu G. Principal, Pushagiri College of Nursing, Thiruvalla, e-mail: renugeethalayam@gmail.com

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

This is an article trying to explore the utilization of EPI cluster sampling style in the prevalence survey for childhood injury. The EPI cluster sampling provides the researcher a low cost way for performing the household survey. There can be a bias in the prevalence estimation because of meeting the participants at a single point of time and the limitation associated with cluster sampling.

Keywords

Cluster sampling, survey