Survey Summary

Pakistan: Standard DHS, 2006-07
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Policy Briefs
In The News:
Press Releases:
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Pakistan
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Recode Structure: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: The National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS)
Fieldwork: September 2006 - February 2007
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 95441
Female: Ever Married Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 10023
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Abortion ‹Questions asking women about pregnancies that ended in an abortion. Includes pregnancy histories where abortion is mentioned as an outcome or when a question such as "Did you or someone else do something to end this pregnancy?" is used.
  • 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.
  • Fistula ‹A set of questions asking women about their experience of symptoms of obstetric fistula.
  • GPS/georeferenced ‹Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Tuberculosis questions ‹Questions asking individuals about their knowledge and attitudes about tuberculosis. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Verbal autopsy ‹A separate questionnaire administered by a trained medical professional to determine the cause of death, usually for children in selected households.

Footnotes:
PKOD52.ZIP: Other Data - This comes from the Community Questionnaire.