Survey Summary

Liberia: MIS, 2009
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Liberia
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Recode Structure: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS)
Fieldwork: December 2008 - March 2009
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 4162
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 4397
Male: No male respondents
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.
  • 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
  • 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.

Footnotes:
Anemia testing was done for children only