Socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population : Uzbekistan 1996

39438 SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION UZBEKISTAN 1996 Davidson R. Gwatkin, Shea Rutstein, Kiersten Johnson, Eldaw Suliman, Adam Wagstaff, and Agbessi Amouzou   TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword I Introduction III Part I. Basic Tables 1 A. Total Population 3 B. Female and Male Populations 9 C. Rural and Urban Populations 13 Part II. Technical Notes 19 A. Indicator Definitions 21 B. Data and Methods 35 C. Discussion 39 Part III. Supporting Tables 45 A. Sample Sizes 47 B. Standard Errors 53 C. Asset Distribution and Weights 59 Part IV. Annexes 61 A. Sources of Additional Information 63 B. Use of Information from this 65 Report to Monitor the Economic Status of People Served by HNP Programs C. Countries Covered by the 71 HNP-Poverty Report Project   FOREWORD The World Bank shares the desire of its member states and client countries to ensure that the poor partake fully in the health gains that the countries achieve. To assist in this, the Bank, in cooperation with the Dutch and Swedish Governments, has sponsored the set of reports providing basic information about health inequalities within countries to which this document belongs. The information shows clearly that disparities in both health conditions and health service use are unacceptably large. As countries and the Bank work to reduce important inequalities among regions and countries, there is a clear need for equally vigorous efforts to lessen the inequity represented by intra-country differences among socio-economic groups. My colleagues and I hope that all concerned with equity in health will find this information useful in making the case for effective actions to improve the health of the poor, and in designing programs to achieve this crucial objective. Joy Phumaphi Vice President Human Development Network The World Bank - I -   INTRODUCTION This report is one in a series that provides basic information about health, nutrition, and population (hnp) inequalities within fifty-six developing countries. The series to which the report belongs is an expanded and updated version of a set covering forty- five countries that was published in 2000. The fifty-six reports in the current series cover almost all DHS surveys undertaken during the period beginning in 1990 and ending with the date of the last survey for which data were publicly available as of June 2006.1 The report's contents are intended to facilitate preparation of country analyses and the development of activities to benefit poor people. To this end, the report presents data about hnp status, service use, and related matters among individuals belonging to different socio-economic classes. The principal focus is on differences among groups of individuals defined in terms of the wealth or assets of the households where they reside. The source of data is the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program, a large, multi-country household survey project. The figures in this and the other reports in the series draw on responses to questions about household wealth or assets included in the DHS questionnaire, which were similar for all the surveys covered. These responses served as the basis for the construction of a wealth index, which was used to rank individuals according to the index value for the household to which they belonged. The individuals were then divided into quintiles, and the mean value for each of up to approximately 120 indicators was calculated for each quintile. The report is organized in four principal parts: