Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 - Measure DHS

emoteness, and the scores were summed for each cluster. Individuals were ranked according to the totalscore of the cluster in which they resided. The sample was then divided into quintiles from most remote(lowest) to least remote (highest). A single remoteness index was developed on the basis of data from theentire country sample, and this index was used in all the tabulations presented with remoteness as abackground characteristic. Table 2.9 shows the distribution of the population into five levels based on theremoteness index, by residence. These distributions indicate the degree to which people live in remoteareas and whether remoteness is evenly (or unevenly) distributed by geographic areas.Table 2.9 shows that 28 percent of the rural population and 14 percent of the urban populationlive in the most remote areas of the country. Almost one-third of the population in the North zone is fromthe most remote areas, whereas 14 percent each from the Central and South zones are from the mostremote areas. Additionally, among the regions of the country, three-fifths (60 percent) of the populationfrom the Central Highland region falls in the most remote category, followed by the Northern, NorthEastern and Western regions of the country.Table 2.9 Remoteness quintilesPercent distribution of the households by remoteness quintiles according to residence, zone and region,Afghanistan 2010Remoteness quintile 1Mostremote Second Middle FourthResidence/regionLeastremoteNumber ofpopulationResidenceUrban 14.2 13.7 20.0 24.5 27.6 34,788Rural 27.8 27.7 20.2 14.1 10.2 140,650ZoneNorth 32.7 19.4 19.8 16.7 11.5 53,862Central 13.8 18.9 22.1 19.1 26.1 62,668South 13.6 21.6 18.5 23.9 22.4 58,908RegionNorth Eastern 25.2 24.2 25.0 14.5 11.0 26,300Northern 38.3 15.7 15.9 18.2 11.9 27,562Western 25.1 15.2 23.2 17.2 19.3 21,982Central Highland 60.1 21.7 18.2 0.0 0.0 5,974Capital 8.5 20.0 21.9 20.4 29.2 34,712Eastern 10.9 13.9 12.2 35.9 27.2 30,312Southern 13.0 18.8 19.7 18.7 29.8 12,656South Eastern 17.7 34.8 24.4 17.0 6.2 15,940Total 20.3 20.0 20.1 19.8 19.8 175,4381The remoteness quintile was not weighted by de jure members because they are cluster-based and will notshow a uniform distribution when tabulated by the de jure population. The percent distribution per household isweighted by the assumed cluster population multiplied by the selection probability, while the total householdpopulation in the last column is weighted by the household weight.2.7 MIGRANTS FROM THE HOUSEHOLDThe AMS 2010 collected information on household migration in the five years before the surveyin two ways. Information on out-migration was obtained by asking if any member who had been part ofthe household five years before the survey on March 21, 2005 (1 Hammal 1384 in the Afghan calendar)had since moved away. For each individual who had moved, information was collected on the month andyear in which the person moved out, the person’s age at the time of the move, and the reason that theperson moved away. Information on migration into the household was obtained by asking whether eachindividual listed in the household schedule had been present in the household on March 21, 2005. If themember had not been present on that date, information was collected on the month and year in which the28 | Household Population, Household and Women’s Characteristics