SNNPR Survey
History of the Community and Family Survey in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR)
An exchange agreement that provided for exchange of faculty and students and for research collaboration was signed between Addis Ababa University and Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. As part of this agreement, the Demographic Training and Research Centre and Addis Ababa University and the Population Studies and Training Centre at Brown University embarked upon a sub-agreement that allowed for training and research collaboration. The SNNPR-CFS was an outcome of this collaborative agreement.
The SNNPR was chosen for the survey because of its heterogeneous ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and religious background, and the lasck of population based information for policy making, program design and implementation.
A Brief Profile of the SNNPR
The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region has a land area of 117,506 square kilometers and a population of about 11.1 million in mid 1997 distributed over nine administrative zones and five special weredas. It accounts for 10.4% of Ethiopia's total land area and about 20% of its population. It is characterized by more than 45 indigenous ethnic groups with distinct languages, cultures and socio-economic organizations. The Region has the greatest population density in all of Ethiopia with about 95 persons per sqare kilometer, varying significantly within zones from 2.3 persons per sqare kilometers in Selemago, South Omo to about 670 in Damot Gale, North Omo.
Focus and Objectives of the Study
The principal focus of the survey was to measure, describe and analyze demographic behavior and change in the SNNPR, as conditioned by culture, economics and institutions. The data collected include both current conditions and conditions since 1991.
Southern Nations and Nationalities People’s Region Community and Family Survey 1997. Demographic Training and Research Centre, Institute for Development Research, Addis Ababa University; and Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1998.