Survey Summary

Nigeria: Standard DHS, 1999
DHS Final Reports
Survey Datasets
Not Distributed
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Nigeria
Contract Phase: DHS-IV
Recode Structure: DHS-IV
Implementing Organization: National Population Commission
Fieldwork: March 1999 - May 1999
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 7647
Female: All Women
Age: 10 to 49
Sample Size: 8199
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 64
Sample Size: 2680
Facilities: Sample Size: 399
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • Causes of death ‹Questions asking about cause of death but not a full verbal autopsy. See also the verbal autopsy module and the accident and injury 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Footnotes:
The DHS Program was not centrally involved in this survey and cannot stand behind the quality of this survey. Data collected for women 10-49, indicators calculated for women 15-49