Survey Summary

Burkina Faso: Standard DHS, 1998-99
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Africa Nutrition Chartbooks
Dissemination CD
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Burkina Faso
Contract Phase: DHS-III
Recode Structure: DHS-III
Implementing Organization: Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD)
Fieldwork: November 1998 - March 1999
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 4812
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 6445
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 2641
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.