Comprehensive Assessment of Human Resources for Health in Côte d’Ivoire 2005

Because HIV/AIDS services vary considerably across the country, the research team randomly sampled 301 of 1,381 health facilities. The facilities were chosen to reflect a variety of factors including geographic location, level of HIV/AIDS care (primary, secondary, tertiary), and the HR distribution. To get a representative sample with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level, a sample of 301 facilities was identified. As a result of these inclusions, all university hospital centers, all regional hospital centers, and all general hospital were included with certainty in the sample. Since the assessment focuses on HIV/AIDS services, all facilities offering such services were also included in the sample with certainty. The remaining health facilities were equally divided among 15 health regions, knowing that the health regions of Lagunes 1 and Lagunes 2 (both of Abidjan) had respectively 15 and 17 health facilities included with certainty in the sample, because of their belonging to the above criteria. Thus, a systematic sampling was drawn from the remaining health facilities by using a step of survey, with random selection of the first number in each region. The step of the survey was obtained by dividing the remaining health facilities of the population by the number of regions.