Survey Summary

Namibia: Standard DHS, 1992
DHS Final Reports
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Namibia
Contract Phase: DHS-II
Recode Structure: DHS-II
Implementing Organization: Ministry of Health and Social Services
Fieldwork: July 1992 - November 1992
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 4101
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 5421
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • Arm circumference
  • 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.
  • Maternal mortality ‹A set of questions asking about all siblings of the respondent (children born to the respondent's biological mother) concerning their sex, age, survival status, and whether the death was pregnancy-related. Questions are used to estimate maternal mortality, pregnancy-related mortality, and adult mortality. Typically asked of women only but in some surveys asked of men as well.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.