The Statistical Office of the
Republic of Serbia, in cooperation with the Institute of Public Health of
Serbia, conducts the Pilot Survey of Serbian Population Health, 2019,
from 15th to 26th August 2019.
Pilot Survey is conducted to test
all instruments that will be used during the Serbia Population Health Survey,
2019, which will be conducted from October 1st to December 30th,
2019.
SERBIAN POPULATION HEALTH SURVEY
Serbian Population Health Survey 2019
is a national survey conducted by the Statistical Office of the Republic of
Serbia in cooperation with the Institute of Public Health of Serbia and the
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia from October 1st to
December 30th, 2019, in accordance with the international standards
(European Health Interview Survey - EHIS, wave 3).
The survey will cover about 6,000
randomly selected households in Serbia. The involved in the Survey will be adults aged 15 and over, as well as
children and young people aged five to fourteen.
The
main objective of the Health Survey is to obtain, on the basis of a
representative sample of the population, a description of the health status of
the population, both at the level of the Republic and at the level of four
statistical regions (Vojvodina, Beograd, Sumadija and Zapadna Srbija, Juzna and Istocna Srbija).
In the essence of the Survey
is the need to obtain information about how people experience their health, the
extent to which they use health care and how they care for their health by
adopting certain The Serbian Population Health Survey will use two methods of
data collection:
• face-to-face interview -
gathering answers to questions during the interviewer-respondent communication
and
• self-completion of the
questionnaire by the respondents without the participation of the interviewer.
During the Survey, basic
anthropological measurements (height, body weight) and blood pressure
measurements of the interviewed persons will be performed.