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Features
Calendar
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. |
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Cooking fuel
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. |
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GPS/georeferenced
GPS/georeferenced Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents. |
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Health insurance
Health insurance Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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HIV knowledge
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. |
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Paper survey
Paper survey Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office. |
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Social marketing
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. |
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Tobacco use
Tobacco use Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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Biomarkers
Anthropometry
Anthropometry description not available |
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Modules
Chronic disease
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. |
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Maternal mortality
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. |
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