Survey Summary

Dominican Republic: Standard DHS, 1991
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Dominican Republic
Contract Phase: DHS-II
Recode Structure: DHS-II
Implementing Organization: Asociación Dominicana Pro-Bienestar de la Familia
Fieldwork: July 1991 - November 1991
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 7144
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 7320
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: Sample Size: 396
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • Arm circumference
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Migration ‹Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Social marketing ‹Questions asking individuals about the brands of condoms and pills used by respondents to identify the social marketing brands used in the country. Condom brands can be asked of women and/or men.