Focus Group Participant Demographics in West Shoa Zone Hospitals, Ethiopia, 2024

Socio-demographic characteristics of participants in focus group discussions conducted in public hospitals of the West Shoa Zone, Central Ethiopia, in 2024. The dataset was authored by Tolera Gudissa Damme and is available as a 5.5 KB XLS file under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze participant demographics based on socio-demographic characteristics mentioned in the description
• Compare focus group composition across different public hospitals in the West Shoa Zone
• Assess representativeness of community voices in health research based on participant profiles

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection
• Data collection is geographically specific to the West Shoa Zone, Central Ethiopia
• Data collection timeframe is explicitly stated as 2024

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Tolera Gudissa Damme

Collection Method

Likely collected from focus group discussions conducted in public hospitals.

Time Range

2024

Geography

West Shoa Zone, Central Ethiopia