The DHS Program

Anthony Kuhn
NPR (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED)

....According to the 2005 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey, which surveyed nearly 17,000 women across the country, 52 percent of Cambodian women said they did not participate at all in the choice of a husband; 27 percent married a man they had never seen before, or had just met within the past month....

 Hanna Ingber
GLOBAL POST

....Child marriage is extremely common in Nepal, which has a population of 30 million. The United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) has found that 51 percent of Nepalese married as children. Nepal's 2006 Demographic and Health Survey found that among Nepalese women age 20 to 49, 60 percent were married by the time they reached 18....

Georgina Smith
THE GUARDIAN

....Mukuku has been born into a very young population – almost half of Zambia's people are under the age of fifteen. Data from the country's Demographic and Health Survey of 2007 – the most recent available – show that educating young people about family planning will be essential to bringing down fertility rates....

Christabel Ligami
THE EAST AFRICAN

....The long-term methods used in the study included the intrauterine devices, implants and sterilisation, usually used to limit childbearing while the short-term methods included pills, condoms, spermicides and injectables. Data from the Demographic and Health Survey for all women of reproductive age was obtained for the analysis....

....About 12 million women between the ages of 15 and 49 in sub-Saharan Africa, roughly 6 per cent of all women in that age group, said they used injectable hormones....

Ghana News Agency

...Quoting from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, the First Lady noted that the use of modern contraceptive methods among married women decreased from 19 per cent to 17 per cent in the preceding five- year period.
   
This reduction translated into approximately 123,000 women of reproductive age in Ghana being at risk of unintended pregnancy...