Survey Summary

Sri Lanka: Standard DHS, 2016
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Survey Datasets
Not In Public Domain
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not In Public Domain
SPA Datasets
Not Collected
Country: Sri Lanka
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure:
Implementing Organization: Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medicine
Fieldwork: May 2016 - November 2016
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 27210
Female: All Women
Age: 10 to 49
Sample Size: 18302
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anemia testing
  • Anthropometry
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • Disability ‹A set of questions asking about physical disabilities of each household member age 5 and older.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prenatal care - folic acid ‹Questions asking women if they took folic acid supplements during the pregnancy for her last live birth.
  • Tobacco use ‹Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men.

Footnotes:
The report and data are not available from our website. Additional information about the 2016 SLDHS may be obtained from the Department of Census and Statistics, “SankyanaMandiraya”, No. 306/71, Polduwa Road, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, Telephone: (94)11-214-7000 or (94)11-214-7001; Fax (94)11-214-7011; Internet: www.statistics.gov.lk