- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Male circumcision self-reported
‹Questions asking men about their circumcision status.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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