Survey Summary

Honduras: Standard DHS, 2011-12
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
General Fact Sheets
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Honduras
Contract Phase: DHS-VI
Recode Structure: DHS-VI
Implementing Organization: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE)
Fieldwork: September 2011 - July 2012
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 21362
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 22757
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 7120
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Alcohol consumption ‹Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Anemia testing
  • Anthropometry
  • Asthma ‹Questions asking individuals if they have asthma. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Birth registration ‹A question on birth registration asked about each household member under the age of 5 years.
  • Breast cancer screening questions ‹Questions asking women if they have been screened for breast cancer. In DHS-8, a single question is included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases module.
  • Calendar ‹The DHS calendar is a month by month history of certain key reproductive and contraceptive key events in the life of the woman respondent for the 5 years preceding the interview.
  • 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.
  • Cervical cancer screening questions ‹Questions asking women if they have been screened for cervical cancer. In DHS-8, these questions are included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases 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.
  • 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.
  • Early childhood education ‹A question asking the household respondent if usual household members age 4-24 years attended an early childhood education program. In DHS-8, this question is included in the core questionnaire.
  • GPS/georeferenced ‹Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.
  • Health expenditures ‹Questions asking about the cost of healthcare services and/or healthcare items usually at the individual level. Can be asked of women and/or men. See also the out-of-pocket expenditures module which is asked at the household level.
  • Health insurance ‹Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Men's survey ‹Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.
  • Out-of-pocket health expenditures ‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about health expenditures for all usual household members who had inpatient care in the past 6 months and 1 randomly selected usual household member who had outpatient care in the past 4 weeks.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Prostate cancer screening questions ‹Questions asking men if they have been screened for prostate cancer.
  • Tobacco use ‹Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Women's status ‹Questions asking individuals about decision-making, ownership of house/land, use of banks, and other related questions. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire.

Footnotes:
A couples dataset could not be generated since the household line number of the wife/partner (used to create variable MV034 and to link the man with his wife/partner) was not recorded in the Man’s Questionnaire.