Survey Summary

Uganda: Standard DHS, 1995
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Uganda
Contract Phase: DHS-III
Recode Structure: DHS-III
Implementing Organization: Department of Statistics, Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning
Fieldwork: March 1995 - August 1995
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 7550
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 7070
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 54
Sample Size: 1996
Facilities: Sample Size: 296
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Service availability ‹A survey of communities and the services available in those communities, mostly used in earlier surveys up until about 2006. Not part of the household or individual questionnaires.