Survey Summary

Guatemala: Standard DHS, 1987
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Guatemala
Contract Phase: DHS-I
Recode Structure: DHS-I
Implementing Organization: Instituto de Nutrición de Centro Americá y Panamá
Fieldwork: September 1987 - December 1987
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 5459
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 44
Sample Size: 5160
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: Sample Size: 185
Survey Characteristics
  • 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.
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.

Footnotes:
Data collected for women 15-44