Survey Summary

Liberia: Standard DHS, 2013
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Country: Liberia
Contract Phase: DHS-VI
Recode Structure: DHS-VI
Implementing Organization: Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-information Services (LISGIS)
Fieldwork: March 2013 - July 2013
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 9333
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 9239
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 4118
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Alcohol consumption ‹Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • E. coli - water test
  • 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 testing
  • HIV testing - DBS
  • Iodine salt test ‹Household salt tested for the presence of iodine.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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:
Testing water samples for E. coli took place in a subset of clusters.