Survey Summary

Maldives: Standard DHS, 2016-17
DHS Final Reports
Survey Presentations
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Maldives
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: Ministry of Health (MOH)
Fieldwork: March 2016 - November 2017
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 6050
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 7699
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 4342
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • 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.
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prenatal care - folic acid ‹Questions asking women if they took folic acid supplements during the pregnancy for her last live birth.

Footnotes:
Fieldworker Data are not distributed.