Abstract

SOUZA-JUNIOR, Paulo Roberto Borges de; FREITAS, Marcos Paulo Soares de; ANTONACI, Giuseppe de Abreu  and  SZWARCWALD, Célia Landmann. Sampling Design for the National Health Survey, 2013. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.2, pp.207-216. ISSN 1679-4974.

This paper describes the sample design used in the Brazilian 2013 National Health Survey. The target population is composed by people resident in permanent private households throughout the country; the survey was household-based with stratified sampling and three clustering stages; census tracts form the primary sampling units, households are the units of second stage and adults (aged 18 years or older) define the third-stage units; the sample size considered the desired level of precision for the estimates of some indicators at different levels of disaggregation and different population groups; the final weighting was a product of inverse selection probabilities at each stage of the sampling plan, including non-response correction procedures and adjustment calibrations for the known population totals. Since this is a complex sample, appropriate procedures must be used during data processing.

Keywords : Population Surveys; Cluster Sampling; Sample Size.

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