Survey Summary

Senegal: Continuous DHS, 2016
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Senegal
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure: DHS-VI
Implementing Organization: Agence Nationale de la Statistique et la Demographie (ANSD)
Fieldwork: January 2016 - October 2016
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 4437
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 8865
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 3527
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • 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
  • Birth registration ‹A question on birth registration asked about each household member under the age of 5 years.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Iodine salt test ‹Household salt tested for the presence of iodine.
  • Malaria microscopy
  • 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.
  • Malaria RDT
  • Men's survey ‹Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.
  • 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:
Each zip file includes two datasets: SNxx7Ixx.xxx for the 2016 survey alone. SNxxG0xx.xxx for the combined 2015/2016 surveys.