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Features
Abortion (143)
Abortion Questions asking women about pregnancies that ended in an abortion. Includes pregnancy histories where abortion is mentioned as an outcome or when a question such as "Did you or someone else do something to end this pregnancy?" is used. |
Alcohol consumption (185)
Alcohol consumption Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Anemia questions (111)
Anemia questions Questions about anemia and the treatment of anemia. This does not include anemia testing which is recorded as a biomarker. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Asthma (7)
Asthma Questions asking individuals if they have asthma. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Avian influenza knowledge (1)
Avian influenza knowledge Questions asked to household respondents and individuals about their knowledge of avian influenza. |
Basic material needs (17)
Basic material needs Questions asking the household respondent if usual household members age 5-17 years have shoes, blankets, and 2 sets of clothing. |
Birth registration (189)
Birth registration A question on birth registration asked about each household member under the age of 5 years. |
Blood pressure questions (44)
Blood pressure questions Questions asking if individuals have been diagnosed with high blood pressure also known as hypertension. These questions are now included in the chronic diseases module. This does not include blood pressure measurement which is recorded as a biomarker. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Breast cancer screening questions (35)
Breast cancer screening questions Questions asking women if they have been screened for breast cancer. In DHS-8, a single question is included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases module. |
CAFÉ survey (18)
CAFÉ survey Computer Assisted Field Editing. Interviews conducted on paper and entered into a laptop or tablet in the field for verification. |
Calendar (232)
Calendar The DHS calendar is a month by month history of certain key reproductive and contraceptive key events in the life of the woman respondent for the 5 years preceding the interview. |
CAPI survey (135)
CAPI survey Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop. |
Causes of death (29)
Causes of death Questions asking about cause of death but not a full verbal autopsy. See also the verbal autopsy module and the accident and injury module. |
Cervical cancer screening questions (70)
Cervical cancer screening questions Questions asking women if they have been screened for cervical cancer. In DHS-8, these questions are included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases module. |
Cooking fuel (292)
Cooking fuel A question asking the household respondent about the type of cooking fuel used by the household. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
Diabetes questions (38)
Diabetes questions Questions asking individuals about awareness of or diagnosis with diabetes. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Early childhood education (90)
Early childhood education A question asking the household respondent if usual household members age 4-24 years attended an early childhood education program. In DHS-8, this question is included in the core questionnaire. |
Fieldworker characteristics (86)
Fieldworker characteristics A set of questions asking about the characteristics of all fieldworkers and included in a separate dataset. These data can be merged with survey responses to explore interviewer effects. |
GPS/georeferenced (286)
GPS/georeferenced Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents. |
Health expenditures (42)
Health expenditures Questions asking about the cost of healthcare services and/or healthcare items usually at the individual level. Can be asked of women and/or men. See also the out-of-pocket expenditures module which is asked at the household level. |
Health insurance (171)
Health insurance Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
HIV behavior (260)
HIV behavior Questions asking individuals about behavioral risk factors related to the transmission of HIV. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
HIV knowledge (300)
HIV knowledge Questions asking individuals about their knowledge about HIV. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
Human trafficking (1)
Human trafficking Questions asking the household respondent if usual household members may have been victims of human trafficking. |
Husband's survey (13)
Husband's survey Surveys that used a separate questionnaire for husband's of women respondents (rather than a men's questionnaire). |
Iodine salt test (187)
Iodine salt test Household salt tested for the presence of iodine. |
Malaria questions (198)
Malaria questions Questions asking women about anti-malarial medication received during pregnancy and anti-malarial medication given to young children, as well as questions asking household respondents about household mosquito net ownership and use. |
Male circumcision self-reported (117)
Male circumcision self-reported Questions asking men about their circumcision status. |
Men's survey (268)
Men's survey Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents. |
Micronutrients (213)
Micronutrients Questions asking which foods and drinks were consumed by children in the 24 hours prior to the survey. |
Migration (105)
Migration Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) (29)
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) Questions asking women about all food and drinks consumed in the 24 hours prior to the interview. In DHS-8, these questions are included in the core questionnaire. |
Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) (22)
Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) A set of questions regarding support for orphans and vulnerable children. This model was mostly used between about 2004 and 2013. |
Paper survey (323)
Paper survey Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office. |
Pregnancy history (67)
Pregnancy history A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births. |
Prenatal care - folic acid (52)
Prenatal care - folic acid Questions asking women if they took folic acid supplements during the pregnancy for her last live birth. |
Prostate cancer screening questions (7)
Prostate cancer screening questions Questions asking men if they have been screened for prostate cancer. |
Social marketing (128)
Social marketing Questions asking individuals about the brands of condoms and pills used by respondents to identify the social marketing brands used in the country. Condom brands can be asked of women and/or men. |
Tobacco use (207)
Tobacco use Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Tuberculosis questions (118)
Tuberculosis questions Questions asking individuals about their knowledge and attitudes about tuberculosis. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Vaccinations from health facilities (18)
Vaccinations from health facilities A review of vaccination records at a health facility for children of women interviewed. This information is compared to the reports obtained during the woman's interview. This is not information about the source of vaccination. |
Vaccine hesitancy (2)
Vaccine hesitancy A set of questions asking the mother about the reasons a child did not receive childhood vaccines. |
Vitamin A questions (133)
Vitamin A questions Questions on whether a child received a vitamin A dose recently, or whether the mother received a dose after a delivery. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
Women's status (266)
Women's status Questions asking individuals about decision-making, ownership of house/land, use of banks, and other related questions. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire. |
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Biomarkers
Anemia testing (212)
Anemia testing description not available |
Anthropometry (314)
Anthropometry description not available |
Arm circumference (24)
Arm circumference description not available |
Arsenic - water test (1)
Arsenic - water test description not available |
Blood pressure (measure) (39)
Blood pressure (measure) description not available |
Chlamydia testing (1)
Chlamydia testing description not available |
Chlorine - water test (8)
Chlorine - water test description not available |
Diabetes testing (7)
Diabetes testing description not available |
Blood glucose testing (7)
Blood glucose testing description not available |
HbA1c DBS testing (2)
HbA1c DBS testing description not available |
HbA1c rapid testing (5)
HbA1c rapid testing description not available |
E. coli - water test (7)
E. coli - water test description not available |
Hepatitis B testing (10)
Hepatitis B testing description not available |
Hepatitis B DBS testing (3)
Hepatitis B DBS testing description not available |
Hepatitis B rapid tests (2)
Hepatitis B rapid tests description not available |
Hepatitis C testing (2)
Hepatitis C testing description not available |
Herpes simplex virus (1)
Herpes simplex virus (HSV-2) |
HIV testing (96)
HIV testing description not available |
HIV CD4 count (2)
HIV CD4 count description not available |
HIV incidence (2)
HIV incidence description not available |
HIV testing - children (8)
HIV testing - children description not available |
HIV testing - DBS (90)
HIV testing - DBS description not available |
HIV testing - RDT (13)
HIV testing - RDT description not available |
HIV testing - venous blood (2)
HIV testing - venous blood description not available |
HIV testing includes confirmation (13)
HIV testing includes confirmation description not available |
HIV viral load (3)
HIV viral load description not available |
Lead testing (3)
Lead testing description not available |
Lipids testing (1)
Lipids testing description not available |
Malaria DBS (6)
Malaria DBS description not available |
Malaria microscopy (17)
Malaria microscopy description not available |
Malaria microscopy (66)
Malaria microscopy description not available |
Malaria microscopy - thin smear (22)
Malaria microscopy - thin smear description not available |
Malaria RDT (96)
Malaria RDT description not available |
Measles testing (3)
Measles testing description not available |
Micronutrient testing
(4)
Micronutrient testing
description not available |
AGP (2)
AGP description not available |
CRP (3)
CRP description not available |
Iron transferrin receptor (3)
Iron transferrin receptor related to anemia testing |
MRDR (3)
MRDR description not available |
Red blood cell folate (2)
Red blood cell folate description not available |
Serum Folate (3)
Serum Folate description not available |
Serum Vitamin B12 (3)
Serum Vitamin B12 description not available |
Urine iodine excretion (5)
Urine iodine excretion description not available |
Vitamin A testing (8)
Vitamin A testing description not available |
Vitamin D3 testing (2)
Vitamin D3 testing description not available |
Sickle cell (genotype test) (1)
Sickle cell (genotype test) description not available |
Syphilis testing (5)
Syphilis testing description not available |
Tetanus testing (4)
Tetanus testing description not available |
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Modules
Accident and injury (6)
Accident and injury A set of questions asking the household respondent about all accidental deaths and injuries among household members in the past 12 months. |
Child discipline (54)
Child discipline A set of questions asking the household respondent about common discipline methods used with one randomly selected household member age 1-14 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). |
Child functioning/disability (2)
Child functioning/disability A set of questions asking household respondents about usual household members age 2-4 or 5-17 years about functional difficulties. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Note that these questions are similar to the disability module but are asked of only children. |
Child labor (86)
Child labor A set of questions asking the household respondent about work done in the last week by 1 randomly selected household member age 5-17 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). |
Child well-being and household structure (2)
Child well-being and household structure description not available |
Chronic disease (39)
Chronic disease A set of questions on chronic diseases. These questions are sometimes referred to as non-communicable disease questions. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Disability (50)
Disability A set of questions asking about physical disabilities of each household member age 5 and older. |
Domestic violence (162)
Domestic violence A set of questions on lifetime experience of domestic violence. Typically asked of women only but in some surveys asked of men. |
Early childhood development index (ECDI) (46)
Early childhood development index (ECDI) A set of questions asking the mother about her children age 2-4 years to obtain information on the overall level of development that a child has reached according to his/her age across three interrelated domains - health, learning and psychosocial well-being. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). In DHS-8, the MICS7 Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) module replaced the MICS6 Early Childhood Developemnt (ECD) module. |
Female genital cutting (92)
Female genital cutting A set of questions asking women about their experience of female genital cutting, also known as female circumcision or female genital mutilation. Questions are also asked about the woman's daughters age 14 and younger. |
Fistula (54)
Fistula A set of questions asking women about their experience of symptoms of obstetric fistula. |
Food insecurity experience scale (FIES) (6)
Food insecurity experience scale (FIES) A set of questions asking the household respondent about the household's ability to access food of sufficient quantity and quality. These questions were developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. |
Human papillomavirus (HPV) (4)
Human papillomavirus (HPV) A set of questions asking young women age 15-17 years about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. |
Maternal mortality (198)
Maternal mortality A set of questions asking about all siblings of the respondent (children born to the respondent's biological mother) concerning their sex, age, survival status, and whether the death was pregnancy-related. Questions are used to estimate maternal mortality, pregnancy-related mortality, and adult mortality. Typically asked of women only but in some surveys asked of men as well. |
Mental health (9)
Mental health A set of questions asking individuals about their own mental health and well-being. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
Newborn care (13)
Newborn care A module containing a set of questions asking mothers about critical child survival care provided to the last live birth born in the 35 months prior to the interview. |
Out-of-pocket health expenditures (23)
Out-of-pocket health expenditures A set of questions asking the household respondent about health expenditures for all usual household members who had inpatient care in the past 6 months and 1 randomly selected usual household member who had outpatient care in the past 4 weeks. |
Service availability (57)
Service availability A survey of communities and the services available in those communities, mostly used in earlier surveys up until about 2006. Not part of the household or individual questionnaires. |
Social & behaviour change communication (SBCC) (17)
Social & behaviour change communication (SBCC) A set of questions asking women about malaria knowledge, attitudes and exposure to media messages. |
Supplemental module on maternal healthcare (2)
Supplemental module on maternal healthcare A set of questions asking women with a pregnancy in the 35 months prior to the interview about details related to antenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and overall experience during a facility birth. Standard DHS surveys include basic questions on antenatal care, labor and delivery, and postpartum care. This module is supplemental to the questions included in the core questionnaire. |
Verbal autopsy (19)
Verbal autopsy A separate questionnaire administered by a trained medical professional to determine the cause of death, usually for children in selected households. |
Youth (20)
Youth A set of questions asked only to young people using a questionnaire separate from the standard individual questionnaire. |
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