As part of an Health Impact Assessment (HIA) project in Angola, a health baseline study needed to be conducted. Angola Resources Consultants (ARC) outsourced the desk-based research to Epi Result. This article discusses the steps that were taken in order to come to a final report on the baseline health status of the community in the region.

I often see people being a bit anxious when it comes to sample size calculations: I recently had a client having this problem when setting up a cross-sectional study. I here explain the solutions found to assist the client with this issue. Two different tools that are freely online available were used.

In September-October 2011 I did a 5-week online course on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) from Village Earth (Colorado State University). The course provided me with lots of interesting reading materials, and there were active discussions online with the fellow participants

In October the Census 2011 was conducted in South Africa. It is not solely counting how many people live in the country, but information is also collected on gender, age, education, etc. As a regular user of the data of StatsSA I found it very interesting to now be a participant.