Survey Summary

Niger: Standard DHS, 2012
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Country: Niger
Contract Phase: DHS-VI
Recode Structure: DHS-VI
Implementing Organization: Institut National de la Statistique (INS)
Fieldwork: February 2012 - June 2012
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 10750
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 11160
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 3928
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.
  • Anemia questions ‹Questions about anemia and the treatment of anemia. This does not include anemia testing which is recorded as a biomarker. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Anemia testing
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • Child discipline ‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about common discipline methods used with one randomly selected household member age 1-14 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
  • Child labor ‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about work done in the last week by 1 randomly selected household member age 5-17 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • HIV testing
  • HIV testing - DBS
  • 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.
  • 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.