Survey Summary

Maldives: Standard DHS, 2009
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Maldives
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Recode Structure: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: Ministry of Health
Fieldwork: January 2009 - October 2009
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 6443
Female: Ever Married Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 7131
Male: Ever Married Men
Age: 15 to 64
Sample Size: 1727
Facilities: N/A
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
  • Birth registration ‹A question on birth registration asked about each household member under the age of 5 years.
  • Blood pressure questions ‹Questions asking if individuals have been diagnosed with high blood pressure also known as hypertension. These questions are now included in the chronic diseases module. This does not include blood pressure measurement which is recorded as a biomarker. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Diabetes questions ‹Questions asking individuals about awareness of or diagnosis with diabetes. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Disability ‹A set of questions asking about physical disabilities of each household member age 5 and older.
  • Early childhood development ‹A set of questions asking the mother about her children age 2-4 years to obtain information on the overall level of development that a child has reached according to his/her age across three interrelated domains - health, learning and psychosocial well-being. These questions are from a MICS module developed by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). In DHS-8, the MICS7 Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) module replaced the MICS6 Early Childhood Developemnt (ECD) module.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Men's survey ‹Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.
  • Micronutrients ‹Questions asking which foods and drinks were consumed by children in the 24 hours prior to the survey.
  • Migration ‹Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Out-of-pocket health expenditures ‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about health expenditures for all usual household members who had inpatient care in the past 6 months and 1 randomly selected usual household member who had outpatient care in the past 4 weeks.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Tobacco use ‹Questions asking individuals about the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Tuberculosis questions ‹Questions asking individuals about their knowledge and attitudes about tuberculosis. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Youth ‹A set of questions asked only to young people using a questionnaire separate from the standard individual questionnaire.

Footnotes:
Caution for Men’s datasets: The response rate to the men's interview was inordinately low (interviews were completed with 54 percent of the men who were eligible for interview); therefore, any user of the men’s data should be aware that the data may not accurately represent the wider Maldivian male population. MVOD50*.ZIP (Other Data): Youth & Young Adult Questionnaire.