Survey Summary

Guinea: Standard DHS, 1999
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Africa Nutrition Chartbooks
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Guinea
Contract Phase: DHS-IV
Recode Structure: DHS-III
Implementing Organization: Direction National de la Statistique et de l'Information
Fieldwork: May 1999 - July 1999
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 5090
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 6753
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 1980
Facilities: Sample Size: 293
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • GPS/georeferenced ‹Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Service availability ‹A survey of communities and the services available in those communities, mostly used in earlier surveys up until about 2006. Not part of the household or individual questionnaires.