Mothers of Preterm Neonates in Harari and Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, 2021-2024

Ethiopian public hospitals in the Harari region and Dire Dawa administration provided this dataset on 612 mothers of preterm neonates admitted to NICUs. It covers socio-demographic characteristics collected between November 1, 2021, and October 31, 2024. The dataset was authored by Boru Abera Ebsa and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify socio-demographic risk factors for preterm birth based on maternal characteristics.
• Analyze regional disparities in neonatal care access based on the specified geographic scope.
• Support public health policy planning for maternal and child health services based on the collected cohort data.

Strengths

• Covers a specific cohort of 612 mothers over a defined 3-year period.
• Focuses on a clearly defined geographic region in Ethiopia.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 5.5 KB file size suggests a very limited scope of variables.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely collected from hospital records in public hospitals in the specified regions.

Time Range

November 1, 2021, to October 31, 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 17:52:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Harari region and Dire Dawa administration, Ethiopia