Survey Summary

Brazil: Standard DHS, 1991
DHS Final Reports
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Brazil
Contract Phase: DHS-II
Recode Structure: DHS-II
Implementing Organization: Sociedad Civil Bem-Estar Familiar no Brasil (BEMFAM)
Fieldwork: August 1991 - December 1991
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 6064
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 6222
Male: Husbands
Age: N/A
Sample Size: 1266
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Husband's survey ‹Surveys that used a separate questionnaire for husband's of women respondents (rather than a men's questionnaire).
  • Men's survey ‹Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.
  • 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.

Footnotes:
Northeast region