Survey Summary

Jordan: Standard DHS, 1990
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Jordan
Contract Phase: DHS-II
Recode Structure: DHS-II
Implementing Organization: Department of Statistics (DOS)/Ministry of Planning
Fieldwork: October 1990 - December 1990
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 16296
Female: Ever Married Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 6461
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.
  • Causes of death ‹Questions asking about cause of death but not a full verbal autopsy. See also the verbal autopsy module and the accident and injury module.
  • Child labor ‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about work done in the last week by 1 randomly selected household member age 5-17 years. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
  • Health insurance ‹Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Migration ‹Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Verbal autopsy ‹A separate questionnaire administered by a trained medical professional to determine the cause of death, usually for children in selected households.