- Abortion
‹Questions asking women about pregnancies that ended in an abortion. Includes pregnancy histories where abortion is mentioned as an outcome or when a question such as "Did you or someone else do something to end this pregnancy?" is used.
- Accident and injury
‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about all accidental deaths and injuries among household members in the past 12 months.
- Alcohol consumption
‹Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. 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.
- Cervical cancer screening questions
‹Questions asking women if they have been screened for cervical cancer. In DHS-8, these questions are included in the core questionnaire and additional questions are included in the chronic diseases module.
- Child discipline
‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about common discipline methods used with one randomly selected household member age 1-14 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
- Child functioning/disability
‹A set of questions asking women about functional difficulties among her living children age 2-4 and/or 5-17 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Note that these questions are similar to the disability module which is asked at the household level but these questions are asked of interviewed women.
- Chronic disease
‹A set of questions on chronic diseases. These questions are sometimes referred to as non-communicable disease questions. Can be asked of women and/or men.
- 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.
- 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.
- E. coli - water test
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- HIV behavior
‹Questions asking individuals about behavioral risk factors related to the transmission of HIV. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mental health
‹A set of questions asking individuals about their own mental health and well-being. Can be asked of women and/or men.
- Micronutrients
‹Questions asking which foods and drinks were consumed by children in the 24 hours prior to the survey.
- Migration
‹Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men.
- Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W)
‹Questions asking women about all food and drinks consumed in the 24 hours prior to the interview. In DHS-8, these questions are included in the core questionnaire.
- Pregnancy history
‹A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births.
- Tobacco use
‹Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men.
- Tuberculosis questions
‹Questions asking individuals about their knowledge and attitudes about tuberculosis. Can be asked of women and/or men.
- 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.
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