The Rapid Household Survey Handbook: How to Obtain Reliable Data on Health at the Local Level


Language: English, Spanish


This manual is designed to help health managers understand the why and the how to of rapid health surveys. It’s targeted to managers within civil society organizations (or nongovernmental organizations), leaders of government health districts, as well as health program monitoring and evaluation officers or managers of regions or districts in which programs are implemented. The manual also enables such stakeholders to determine whether they want to carry out a rapid survey, what they should think about in their plans, and how to identify and implement the appropriate sampling approach.

Download the manual in both English and Spanish.