Model Datasets

The DHS Program has created model datasets so users can become familiar with datasets without having to register for access. These datasets have been created strictly for practice and do not represent any country's actual data. Model datasets are based on the DHS 6 Questionnaire and Recode.

The model datasets are designed to include a wide variety of survey characteristics and topics including:

  • Alcohol Consumption
  • Anemia Questions
  • Anthropometry
  • Birth Registration                                    
  • Calendar
  • Child Labor
  • Cooking Fuel
  • Domestic Violence  
  • Female Genital Cutting
  • Health Insurance
  • HIV Behavior                         
  • HIV Knowledge
  • HIV Testing
  • Malaria Module including Bednet Inventory
  • Malaria and Bednet Questions
  • Malaria Parasitemia
  • Male Circumcision
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Man's Survey
  • Tobacco Use
  • Vitamin A Questions
  • Women's Status

Model datasets can be used for many different purposes. Users can practice replicating standard final report tables or try calculating complex indicators. Model datasets can be used by professors and trainers to standardly teach statistical concepts and procedures. Let us know how you're using the model datasets by emailing modeldatasets@dhsprogram.com

Download Model Datasets 

Unlike datasets for specific surveys, users do NOT need to register in order to gain access. Users can pick and choose which data files to download. Users can also download a full set of final report tables and sampling errors to check their work. Learn more>>

The DHS Program User Forum

The DHS Program User Forum is a place for dataset users to ask and answer questions about datasets and analysis. Search the User Forum to find answers or become a registered member to post a question. 

Experiencing difficulties with the model datasets? Simply email modeldatasets@dhsprogram.com

Download Datasets

The DHS Program is authorized to distribute, at no cost, unrestricted survey data files for legitimate academic research. Registration is required for access to data.

Guide to Using Datasets


Debugging Information
ColdFusion Server Developer 2018,0,19,330149
Template /data/Model-Datasets.cfm
Time Stamp 03-Jul-24 01:23 AM
Locale English (US)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Remote IP 10.0.0.149
Host Name 10.0.0.149


Execution Time

Total Time Avg Time Count Template
63 ms 63 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/master.cfm
63 ms 63 ms 1 top level C:\inetpub\wwwroot\dhs\data\Model-Datasets.cfm
47 ms 47 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/set-page-vars.cfm
16 ms 16 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/non-dashboard-include.cfm
15 ms 15 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/site-application.cfm
15 ms 15 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/site-application-meat.cfm
15 ms 15 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/dhs/data/Application.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/ADF/core/load_site_adf.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/security/security-page.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/build-request-params.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/core-application-meat.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/handle-head-request.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/handle-request-timeout.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/init-customer-scope.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/startup/init-server-scope.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 5 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/add-unregistered-resource-request.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/append-to-resource-group.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/cached-page-render.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/cp-cfheader.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/cp-cfmail-request-queue.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/flush-cache-db-queue.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/handle-in-list.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/load-template-properties.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/utilities/verify-stub-data.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/dhs/custom-application.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 C:/inetpub/wwwroot/dhs/custom-search/inc-custom-application-search-vars.cfm
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/cache-status.cfc | DBQueue_Count() ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/cache-status.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 2 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/cache-status.cfc | GetPageCacheStatus(23032, 5, 2352, 0) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/cache-status.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/cache-status.cfc | GetPageCacheStatus(2352, 5, 2, 0) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/cache-status.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/custom-module-cache.cfc | getCustomAppPath(5) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/custom-module-cache.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/custom-module-cache.cfc | getCustomModulePath(post-page-render, 5) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/custom-module-cache.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/item-security-cache.cfc | GetEntry(23032) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/item-security-cache.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/rewrite-rules-cache.cfc | getRewriteSettings(5) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/rewrite-rules-cache.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/subsite-cache-manager.cfc | getLatest() ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/subsite-cache-manager.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/subsite-cache-manager.cfc | getSecurityPageIDMap([complex value]) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/subsite-cache-manager.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/template-cache.cfc | LoadTemplateProperties(template-Data-Template.cfm, 2352, 5) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/cache/template-cache.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/custom-application-framework/handle-applications.cfc | executeFunction(handleRequestStart) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/custom-application-framework/handle-applications.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/engine/ACF/utilities.cfc | checkFileExists(C:/commonspot-data/customers/commonspot-users/sites/commonspot-site-dhs/mapped/cache/5/p23032-c0-l90-t0-dlame.read, 0, false) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/engine/ACF/utilities.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent('head' request check) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(CGI variable processing) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(Request object updates) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(Request.Params initialized) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(RequestTimeout check) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(Server-level remote requests checked) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(Subsite context updated (ID=5)) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(authoring suspended check) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(basic setup) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(check for server property changes) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(core cleanup) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(core initialization) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(core variables) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(custom-application.cfm) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(customerScope object initialized) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(handleRequestStart) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(init-server-scope loaded) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(lock checks/updates) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(site environment initialization) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(site session check) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(subsite context refreshed) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(wait for lock: CommonSpot_Server_Scope (read)) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | addEvent(wait for lock: CommonSpot_Site1_Core (exclusive)) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc | init() ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/debug-timing.cfc
0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/visitor-context-rule-actions.cfc | onPageVisit(23032, 5) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/commonspot/components/util/visitor-context-rule-actions.cfc
16 ms  STARTUP, PARSING, COMPILING, LOADING, & SHUTDOWN
94 ms  TOTAL EXECUTION TIME
red = over 250 ms average execution time


SQL Queries

SelectedCustomRenderElements (Datasource=commonspot-site-dhs, Time=47ms, Records=2846) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\commonspot\set-page-vars.cfm @ 01:23:11.011
		SELECT dcr.*
		  FROM Data_Custom_Render dcr, CustomElementModules cem
		 WHERE (dcr.PageID IN (?,?,?,?)) 
			AND dcr.VersionState=?
			AND (dcr.ModuleID = cem.ID OR dcr.ModuleID <= 0)
	 ORDER BY dcr.ControlID, dcr.PageID DESC, dcr.VersionID DESC
	
Query Parameter Value(s) -
Parameter #1(CF_SQL_INTEGER) = 1
Parameter #2(CF_SQL_INTEGER) = 2
Parameter #3(CF_SQL_INTEGER) = 23032
Parameter #4(CF_SQL_INTEGER) = 2352
Parameter #5(CF_SQL_INTEGER) = 2


Scope Variables

Application Variables:
activesubsites=1,2,5,6,8,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58
adf=Struct (89)
adfscheduler=Struct (0)
applicationname=site1
assocpubdocs=Struct (4)
blogcache=Struct (4)
cachedimages=Struct (32)
cacheinfocache=Struct (53)
confidentiality=Array (5)
controlinstance_toplevel_cache=Struct (126)
covid_articlecount=10
covid_newsarticlecount=49
covid_pressreleasecount=4
covid_pubcount=3
cs_elementcache=Struct (10)
cs_resourcesmissing=Struct (0)
cs_rewriterulescache=Struct (21)
cs_subsitecachemanager=Struct (28)
customerinfo=Complex type
customerscope=Struct (21)
custommodulecache=Struct (21)
defaultconfidentiality=2
dhspagesyncdata=Struct (1)
itemsecuritycache=Struct (31)
languagenames=Struct (51)
languages=Struct (51)
lastknownchange=Struct (18)
lastupdate=Struct (14)
metadatacache=Struct (4)
pendingstubrequests=Struct (0)
rsscache=Struct (2)
search_archive_next_clean=2024-07-03 12:12:03
serverstatus=Struct (1)
site=Struct (74)
sitescope=Struct (9)
styleids=Struct (248)
stylenames=Struct (248)
subsitecache=Struct (46)
subsitecachebysecuritypageid=Struct (46)
templatecache=Struct (28)
templatedefaultsecuritycache=Struct (60)
templateenforcedsecuritycache=Struct (60)
treecache=Struct (25)
twittercache=Struct (2)
typefactory=Complex type
youtubecache=Struct (3)
CGI Variables:
AUTH_PASSWORD=
AUTH_TYPE=
AUTH_USER=
CERT_COOKIE=
CERT_FLAGS=
CERT_ISSUER=
CERT_KEYSIZE=
CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE=
CERT_SERIALNUMBER=
CERT_SERVER_ISSUER=
CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT=
CERT_SUBJECT=
CF_TEMPLATE_PATH=C:\inetpub\wwwroot\dhs\data\Model-Datasets.cfm
CONTENT_LENGTH=0
CONTENT_TYPE=
CONTEXT_PATH=
GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
HTTPS=off
HTTPS_KEYSIZE=
HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE=
HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER=
HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT=
HTTP_ACCEPT=*/*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip, br, zstd, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=
HTTP_CONNECTION=
HTTP_COOKIE=JSESSIONID=5A9DFB3C6E71EF66FF977B85063F1888.cfusion; CSRFTOKEN=82637FB65A73BE384D374249949D936A7062619D
HTTP_HOST=preview.dhsprogram.com
HTTP_REFERER=
HTTP_URL=/data/Model-Datasets.cfm
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
LOCAL_ADDR=10.0.0.111
PATH_INFO=
PATH_TRANSLATED=C:\inetpub\wwwroot\dhs\data\Model-Datasets.cfm
QUERY_STRING=
REMOTE_ADDR=10.0.0.149
REMOTE_HOST=10.0.0.149
REMOTE_USER=
REQUEST_METHOD=GET
SCRIPT_NAME=/data/Model-Datasets.cfm
SERVER_NAME=preview.dhsprogram.com
SERVER_PORT=80
SERVER_PORT_SECURE=0
SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE=Microsoft-IIS/10.0
WEB_SERVER_API=
Cookie Variables:
CSRFTOKEN=82637FB65A73BE384D374249949D936A7062619D
JSESSIONID=5A9DFB3C6E71EF66FF977B85063F1888.cfusion
Request Parameters:
anonnoreadelements=
applockname=CS_App_Site1_1
archiveemail=archive@dhsprogram.com
assetsdir=/assets/
author_approve_whereclause=(VersionState = 2)
authormode=0
authorok=1
browser=Struct (13)
browserallincluded=1
cachefilesused=1
cachestatus=Complex type
cfflushcount=0
cgivars=Struct (49)
cloudfrontkeypairid=K3LSHNFSZFMIUC
cloudfronturl=d1vyaiefsqy4pf
constants=Complex type
cors.isCorsRequest=NO
cp=Struct (123)
cs_init_timings=Struct (23)
cs_isdashboardcmd=0
cs_request_start_memory=1363256320
cs_runningdashboardcmdcode=0
csrftoken=82637FB65A73BE384D374249949D936A7062619D
customerinfo=Complex type
customsearch=Struct (11)
dbdsn=measure_db
debugstate=Struct (1)
dhspagesyncdata=Struct (1)
disablehideformenus=0
dsource=dhs_legacy_live
editmode=0
element=Struct (42)
elementrundetail=Struct (0)
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environment=Struct (5)
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hivbold=1,3,8,9
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initialsiteid=1
initticks=1719969791007
jswarnmessage=
lockid=0
mainpage=Struct (84)
maxperms=Complex type
modewhereclause=(VersionState = 2)
modewhereclause_page=(VersionState = 2)
noauthorreason=
nondashboardincludedone=1
obcountires=EG,ZM
package=Struct (0)
page=Struct (84)
pageperms=Complex type
pagesync=Struct (4)
params=Struct (1)
params_formfields=
params_urlfields=
readmodewhereclause=(VersionState = 2)
renderelementdata=Struct (0)
renderfordiff=0
renderforprint=0
renderstate=Struct (73)
req_cam_callcount=1
req_inittimestamp=2024-07-03 01:23:11.007
req_sequenceid=56392
req_startticks=1719969791007
rootdir=/
rootpath=
rooturldatasetadmin=https://preview.dhsprogram.com/data/dataset_admin
samesite_value=
serverdatasource=commonspot-sites
sessionlockname=Session_1_5A9DFB3C6E71EF66FF977B85063F1888.cfusion
sessionstring=1_5A9DFB3C6E71EF66FF977B85063F1888.cfusion
site=Struct (74)
siteid=1
styleids=Struct (248)
stylenames=Struct (248)
subsite=Struct (0)
subsitecache=Struct (46)
subsitecachebysecuritypageid=Struct (46)
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templaterootdir=/
timestamp={ts '2024-07-03 01:23:11'}
trustcachestatus=1
typefactory=Complex type
udslockname=CS_Customer_commonspot-users
updatingschemas=0
user=Struct (30)
usersdatasource=commonspot-users
wanterrorsrethrown=0
warnmessage=
xmlbrowser=Struct (13)
Server Variables:
ADF=Struct (15)
COMMONSPOT=Struct (44)
EMAILALERTKEY=BSu0cRa8xSWdSrClnnGvpA==
coldfusion=Struct (10)
os=Struct (5)
system=Struct (2)
Session Variables:
_csrf_token=82637FB65A73BE384D374249949D936A7062619D
adf=Struct (0)
authormode=0
contributemode=read
currentpageid=8703
debugmode=0
debugstate=Struct (1)
editmode=0
environment=Struct (5)
hasusertempfiles=0
language=Struct (216)
lastupdate=Struct (2)
lastuserupdate=1719969784475
lockid=0
lockobjectid=0
lockobjecttype=
locktype=
logintime=
ownedobjecttypes=
pendingapprovalpages=
pendingapprovals=
previewmode=0
requestedversioncounter=
requestedversiontimestamp=
sessionid=5A9DFB3C6E71EF66FF977B85063F1888.cfusion
sessionstring=1_5A9DFB3C6E71EF66FF977B85063F1888.cfusion
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user=Struct (30)
xmlbrowser=Struct (13)
xmlenvironment=Struct (5)
Debug Rendering Time: 15 ms