Survey Summary

Rwanda: Interim DHS, 2007-08
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Rwanda
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Recode Structure: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)
Fieldwork: December 2007 - April 2008
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 7377
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 7313
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 6837
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anemia questions ‹Questions about anemia and the treatment of anemia. This does not include anemia testing which is recorded as a biomarker. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Anemia testing
  • 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.
  • Malaria microscopy
  • Malaria questions ‹Questions asking women about anti-malarial medication received during pregnancy and anti-malarial medication given to young children, as well as questions asking household respondents about household mosquito net ownership and use.
  • Malaria RDT
  • Male circumcision self-reported ‹Questions asking men about their circumcision status.
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • 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.

Footnotes:
A couples dataset could not be generated since the household line number of the wife/partner (used to create variable MV034 and to link the man with his wife/partner) was not recorded in the Man’s Questionnaire.