Survey Summary

Niger: Standard DHS, 2017
Survey Datasets
Not Distributed
HIV Testing
Not Distributed
GPS Datasets
Not Distributed
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Niger
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure:
Implementing Organization: Institut National de la Statistique (INS)
Fieldwork: October 2017 - February 2018
Status: Under Audit
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 12000
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 12000
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 5500
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anemia testing
  • Anthropometry
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • 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 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).
  • 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 ‹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 ‹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 ‹A set of questions asking women about their experience of symptoms of obstetric fistula.
  • HIV testing
  • HIV testing - DBS
  • HIV testing includes confirmation
  • Malaria microscopy
  • Malaria RDT
  • 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.
  • Men's survey ‹Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.

Footnotes:
The 2017 Niger DHS data will not be released due to the results of internal and external data quality audits.