SUBJECT: HEALTH STATISTICS

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (20 MARKS)

1. If vertical lines are drawn at every point of straight line in frequency polygon then by
this way frequency polygon is transformed into

a) Width diagram

b) Length diagram

c) histogram

d) dimensional bar chat

2. Listed below are examples of bar charts except

a) Picto grams

b) Compound bar charts

c) Simple bar chart

d) Multiple bar charts.

3. The following are all measures of disprsion,which one is not

a) Standard deviation

b) mode

c) mean deviation

d) range

4. A disadvantage of interviewing is that inaccurate or false data may be collected. The

following are the reasons:

a) Forgetfulness

b) Misunderstanding the question

c) Deliberate intent to mislead

d) All the above

5. The following are measures of central tendency:

a) Mode

b) Mean

c) Median
 d) All the above.

6.The information on community diagnosis can be obtained by:

a) Observation

b) Group discussion

c) Screening for specific problem

d) All of the above

7.Indicators of health should have the following characteristics except

a) Valid

b) Cummulative

c) Sensitive

d) Feasible

8.The following are types of health indicators.which one is not

a) Morbidity indicators

b) Mortality indicators

c) Time indicators

d) Nutritional status indicators

9.Methods of collecting qualitative data include

a) Individual interviews

b) Focus groups

c) Observation

d) All the above

10.A daily bed return contains the following entries. Which one is the odd one out

a) Admissions

b) Deaths

c) Care takers

d) Day cases
11.There are 6 males in a class of 20 students. What is the best term to describe the
comparison

a) Ratio

b) Percentage

c) Proportion

d) Rate

12.The number of in patient present at the census taking time each day plus the number of in
patient who were both admitted and discharged after the census taking time the previous day
is the:

a) Inpatient census

b) Daily inpatient census

c) Inpatient service day

d) In patient bed occupancy ratio

13.In statistics,the following are measures of dispersion except:

a) Mode

b) Variance

c) Standard deviation

d) Interquartile range

14.A list of 5 pulse rate is 70,64,80,74,92.What is the median for this list?

a) 74

b) 76

c) 77

d) 80

15.Which of the following would indicate that a dataset is not bell shaped

a) The range is equal to 5 standard deviation

b) The range is larger than the inter quartile range

c) The mean is much smaller than the median

d) There are no outliers

16.Which one of these statistics is unaffected by outliers:

a) Mean

b) Inter quartile range

c) Standard deviation

d) Range

17.A magazine printed a survey in its monthly issue and asked readers to fill out and send it
in. Over 1000 readers did so. This type of sample is called

a) Cluster sample

b) Self selected sample

c) Stratified sample

d) Simple random sample

18. The sum of the percent frequencies for all classes will always equal

a) One

b) The number of classes

c) The number of items in the study

d) 100

19. Generally,ordinal variables are best displayed visually with:

a) Cumulative percentages

b) Pie charts

c) Subsets

d) Bar graph

20. Consider these scores:0,3,1,5,1.The mean is

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 5
TRUE OR FALSE QUESTIONS (20 MARKS)

1. When writing a research proposal, literature review helps one to bring clarity and
focus to his /her research problem.

2. A variable is a property that takes on different values.

3. Government publications and structured interviews are secondary sources of

information.

4. A sample frame is defined as part of the population that represents an entire

population in a research.

5. Turn over per bed is calculated as discharges and deaths divided by available beds.

6. Vital statistics are based on human population.

7. Mean mode and median are not measures of dispersion.

8. A compound bar chart is the same as a component bar chart.

9. Discrete data is also known as grouped data.

10. When constructing a table ,one should always consider the values in the y-axis and x-
axis

11. Abitrary points are numerical values given to each group of items in grouped
frequency distribution.

12. A lorenz curve is a graph of dispersion

13. When drawing a graph,the independent variable should always be placed on the
vertical axis

14. The class limits actually given in a grouped frequency distribution are called the
stated limits.

15. Point of maximum frequency density can also be defined as the mode in statistics.

16. The word variation is sometimes used as an alternative to dispersion.

 17. The skewness of a distribution can be measured as regards the direction and degree of
skew.

18. Community diagnosis can either be descriptive or analytical

19. Data collection should be conducted at intervals sufficiently frequent for the
management purpose

20. Primary data is the data collected by the researcher themselves.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTIONS (20 MARKS)

1. ..............................is any measure relating to a population.

2. .................................is is any measure relating to a sample

3. Drawing a conclusion about a population from a sample is called............................

4. ----------------------are fractiles relating to 10ths of the way through a distribution.

5. When the cumulative frequencies of a distribution are graphed, the

name......................is given to the curve so obtained.

6. .............................statistics deals with methods of describing large masses of

numbers.

7. ..........................is a group of items taken from the population for examination

8. Any data that an investigator collects himself is termed to as .............................

9. ...................................is the foundation for improving and promoting the health of

community members.

10. .............................is a document that is written by a scientist or academic which

describes the ideas for an investigation on a certain topic.

11. Hospital in patient statistics are usually captured in a document called..................

12. ...............is a characteristic or property that can take on different values

13. A............................distribution shows the values that a variable can take and the
number of observations associated with each value.
 14. ......................are used to measure an event over time and are sometimes used as
performance improvement measures.

15. .................is the termination of a period of in patient hospitalization through a formal

release by the hospital.

16. The.........................is the percentage of official beds occupied by hospital inpatients

for a given period of time.

17. A .......................graph is a way of summarizing a set of categorical data.

18. A.....................shows a quantity which can be divided into parts, these can be placed
on to maps to show variations in composition of geographical phenomenon.

19. .....................is the most frequent score in our data set.

20. A.............................measures the degree of spread in a variable’s values.

EASSY QUESTION

1. The table below shows clinic attendance data for JAMII BORA HOSPITAL for the
month of November 2016.Draw a component bar chart to represent the information..

YEAR MEDICAL SURGICAL PEDIATRIC

2008 81 82 39

2009 80 40 40

2010 90 60 40

2011 70 50 20

2012 90 90 20

2. In the year 2001, Dawa district hospital had 45 beds allocated throughout the year. It
reported 11785 in patient days,145 discharges,8 absconders while 12 patients decided
 to go home without the consent of the clinician, total of 15 deaths were recorded.
Calculate the following:

a) % occupancy

b) ALOS

c) TOB

d) TOI

3. Discuss in details at least five uses of health statistics.

4. Discuss at least 5 characteristics of health indicators in community diagnosis

5. Discuss 4 methods of probability sampling giving 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages

of each method

6. Discuss ten points to consider when designing a questionnaire.

7. Describe in details and in order the contents of a research proposal