Socio-Economic Characteristics of Hospital Respondents in Shashemene, Ethiopia, 2021

Shashemene town in south Ethiopia is the location for this survey of 403 respondents from public hospitals in 2021. The dataset, authored by Dedefo Gemeda Anbesa, captures socio-economic characteristics of the participants. It is a 9.5 KB Excel file shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between socio-economic status and healthcare utilization based on respondent characteristics.
• Model demographic profiles of public hospital users in a specific Ethiopian town.
• Benchmark socio-economic indicators for a mid-sized Ethiopian urban population in 2021.

Strengths

• Dataset has a specific sample size of 403 respondents.
• Focus is on a defined geographic location (Shashemene town) and time period (2021).
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely contains survey data from respondents in public hospitals.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 17:45:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Shashemene town, south Ethiopia