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Timor-Leste: Standard DHS, 2025

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Country:	Timor-Leste
Contract Phase:	DHS-9
Recode Structure:
Implementing Organization:	National Institute of Statistics Timor-Leste
Fieldwork:	May 2025 - August 2025
Status:	Pending

Respondents
Households:	Sample Size: 12740
Female:	All Women Age: 15 to 49 Sample Size: 14000
Male:	All Men Age: 15 to 59 Sample Size: 7584
Facilities:	N/A

Survey Characteristics

Features

Alcohol consumption

Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men.

Birth registration

A question on birth registration asked about each household member under the age of 5 years.

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

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.

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

Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.

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

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.

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

Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.

Health insurance

Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.

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

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.

Iodine salt test

Household salt tested for the presence of iodine.

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.

Men's survey

Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.

Micronutrients

Questions asking which foods and drinks were consumed by children in the 24 hours prior to the survey.

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)

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.

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

Questions asking women if they took folic acid supplements during the pregnancy for her last live birth.

Tobacco use

Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men.

Tuberculosis questions

Questions asking individuals about their knowledge and attitudes about tuberculosis. Can be asked of women and/or men.

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

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.

Biomarkers

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Modules

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

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.

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

A set of questions asking about physical disabilities of each household member age 5 and older.

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)

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.

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.

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

A set of questions asking individuals about their own mental health and well-being. Can be asked of women and/or men.

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.

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