Survey Summary

Mali: Standard DHS, 2018
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Mali
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: The National Institute of Statistics (Institut National de Statistiques -INSTAT), the Center for Planning and Statistics - Health, Social Development, and Family Promotion Sectors (Cellule de Planification et de Statistique Secteur Santé, Développement Social et Promotion de la Famille - CPS/SS-DS-PF)
Fieldwork: August 2018 - November 2018
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 9510
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 10519
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 4618
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fieldworker characteristics ‹A set of questions asking about the characteristics of all fieldworkers and included in a separate dataset. These data can be merged with survey responses to explore interviewer effects.
  • Fistula ‹A set of questions asking women about their experience of symptoms of obstetric fistula.
  • Malaria RDT
  • 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.