Survey Summary

Morocco: Standard DHS, 2003-04
DHS Final Reports
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Morocco
Contract Phase: DHS-IV
Recode Structure: DHS-IV
Implementing Organization: Ministère de la Santé, Direction de la Planification et des Ressources Financières, Division de la Planification et des Études, Service des Etudes et de l’Information Sanitaire – SEIS
Fieldwork: October 2003 - February 2004
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 11513
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 16798
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • 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.
  • Tobacco use ‹Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men.

Footnotes:
The Morocco Survey will be a collaboration between MEASURE DHS+ and PAPFAM of the League of the Arab States