Nepal

Table 2.3.2 Distribution of surveyed facilities, by managing authority (weighted)
Number of surveyed facilities of each type, by managing authority, Nepal Health Facility Survey 2015
Managing authority
Facility type
Government/p
ublic
NGO/private
not for profit
Private for
profit
Mission/faithbased
National
average
Zonal and above
hospitals 6 0 0 0 6
District-level hospitals 16 0 0 0 16
Private hospitals 0 8 61 1 70
PHCCs 42 0 0 0 42
HPs 775 0 0 0 775
UHCs 32 0 0 0 32
Stand-alone HTCs 0 23 0 0 23
National average 871 31 61 1 963
2.5.2 Sample of Health Service Providers
For the purposes of the NHFS, a health service provider was defined as someone who provided
consultation services, counseling, health education, or laboratory services to clients. Thus, health workers
were not eligible for observations or interviews if they took measurements or completed registers only and
never provided professional client services.
The sample of health service providers was selected from providers who were present in the facility
on the day of the assessment and who provided services assessed in the 2015 NHFS. The aim was to
interview an average of eight providers in each facility in order to include providers of the range of services
being assessed. In facilities with fewer than eight health care providers, all of the providers present on the
day of the visit were interviewed. In facilities with more than eight providers, efforts were made to interview
eight providers, including all providers whose consultations were observed and who responded to any section
of the facility inventory questionnaire. If interviewers observed fewer than eight providers, then they also
interviewed a random selection of the remaining providers to obtain a total of eight provider interviews. Data
were weighted during the analysis to account for the differentials caused by oversampling or undersampling
of providers with a particular qualification in a facility type or province. In a few cases, the staff members
present on the day of the assessment may not have been representative of the staff usually providing the
services being assessed. 4
Table 2.4 provides information on the total number of health providers present in sampled facilities
on the day of the survey and the number selected for interviews, by type of facility and provider. The table
also shows the proportion of providers present at the time of the assessment who were interviewed according
to provider type. Table 2.5 presents the weighted percent distribution and the weighted and unweighted
numbers of interviewed providers, by background characteristics.
4
For example, the assessment may have taken place at the same time as an offsite training event for a group of specialists
or on a day when evaluations took a certain type of provider away from service provision.
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