Reference population. The eligible population is not “a priori” determined. Each Caritas’ counselling centre is opened to receive every person asking for help. The Local Diocesis guidelines suggest to counselling centres to follow a kind of territorial competence; this means that if an individual apply for help, but he/she doesn’t live in the area of competence of the contacted centre, the operators should send him/her to the right centre. This is not always possible or appropriate. In principle, Caritas counselling centres receive people of three possible categories: - Residents in the Pisa province; - Residents outside the Pisa province; - Homeless. The Pisa province area is not entirely covered by the MIROD network: firstly, because the Caritas counselling centres have a fragmented diffusion on the territory; secondly, because not all counselling centres use the MIROD software. These are the areas actually covered in the three dioceses of the Pisa province: - Pisa’s Diocesi: 5 Caritas counselling centres and 3 soup kitchens and clothing distribution centres; - Volterra’s Diocesi: 1 counselling centre; - Valdarno’s Diocesi: 14 counselling centres; In 2008 they registered 2322 accesses.
Reference population. The reference population of EU-SILC is all private households and their current members residing in the territory of the province of Pisa at the time of data collection. Persons living in collective households and in institutions are excluded from the target population. In terms of the units involved, four types of data are gathered in EU-SILC: - variables measured at the household level; - information on household size and composition and basic characteristics of household members; - income and other more complex variables termed “basic variables” (education, basic labour information and second job) measured at the personal level, but normally aggregated to construct household-level variables; - variables collected and analysed at the person-level “the detailed variables” (health, access to health care, detailed labour information, activity history and calendar of activities).”
Reference population. Cluster sampling will be carried out in each of two districts in the Western Region. Project sub- districts in Wassa Amenfi include Oppon Valley, Xxxxx Amenfi, Samreboi, and Wassa Saa with a total population of 105, 925 (representing 46% of the entire district population). In the four subdistricts, subgroups of women and children <5 each represent about 20% of the population (or approximately 21,185). Project sub-districts in Wassa West include Nsuaem, Himan Pristea, Bogoso, and Huni Valley with a total population of 78,207 (representing 33% of the entire district population). In the three subdistricts, subgroups of women and children <5 each represent about 20% of the population (or approximately 15,641). Through a two-stage sampling process communities will be randomly selected from a sampling frame, followed by determination of households. Both districts are rural and fairly homogenous in terms of demographics, although access to health service is more limited in Wassa Amenfi .
