Survey Summary

Egypt: Standard DHS, 2008
Survey Datasets
Data Available
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Egypt
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Recode Structure: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: Ministry of Health and Population/El-Zanaty and Associates
Fieldwork: March 2008 - June 2008
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 18968
Female: Ever Married Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 16527
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • Avian influenza knowledge ‹Questions asked to household respondents and individuals about their knowledge of avian influenza.
  • Blood pressure (measure)
  • 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.
  • Diabetes questions ‹Questions asking individuals about awareness of or diagnosis with diabetes. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Health expenditures ‹Questions asking about the cost of healthcare services and/or healthcare items usually at the individual level. Can be asked of women and/or men. See also the out-of-pocket expenditures module which is asked at the household level.
  • Health insurance ‹Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Hepatitis C testing
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Women's status ‹Questions asking individuals about decision-making, ownership of house/land, use of banks, and other related questions. Can be asked of women and/or men. These are included as part of the core questionnaire.

Footnotes:
Health Issues Subsample: Data Type: Household Raw & Individual Raw - All women age 15-59 interviewed: 6578, All men age 15-59 interviewed: 5430, Households interviewed: 4662. Sub-survey on health for men and women: Data Type: Other Data