- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Newborn care
‹A module containing a set of questions asking mothers about critical child survival care provided to the last live birth born in the 35 months prior to the interview.
- Pregnancy history
‹A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births.
- Supplemental module on maternal healthcare
‹A set of questions asking women with a pregnancy in the 35 months prior to the interview about details related to antenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and overall experience during a facility birth. Standard DHS surveys include basic questions on antenatal care, labor and delivery, and postpartum care. This module is supplemental to the questions included in the core questionnaire.
- 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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