The DHS Program

Survey Summary

Benin: Standard DHS, 1996

DHS Final Reports	FR81 Benin 1996 DHS Final Report (French) PDF, 5489K
Summary Reports/Key Findings	SR56 Benin 1996 Summary Report (French) PDF, 2361K

Survey Datasets
Data Available

HIV Testing
Not Collected

GPS Datasets
Data Available

SPA Datasets
Not Applicable

Country:	Benin
Contract Phase:	DHS-III
Recode Structure:	DHS-III
Implementing Organization:	Institute National de la Statistique
Fieldwork:	June 1996 - August 1996
Status:	Completed

Survey Characteristics

Anthropometry
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 education ‹A question asking the household respondent if usual household members age 4-24 years attended an early childhood education program. In DHS-8, this question is included in the core questionnaire.
GPS/georeferenced ‹Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.
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.

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.
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.
Social marketing ‹Questions asking individuals about the brands of condoms and pills used by respondents to identify the social marketing brands used in the country. Condom brands can be asked of women and/or men.
Vitamin A questions ‹Questions on whether a child received a vitamin A dose recently, or whether the mother received a dose after a delivery. These are included as part of the core questionnaire.