Survey Summary

Dominican Republic: Standard DHS, 1986
DHS Final Reports
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Dominican Republic
Contract Phase: DHS-I
Recode Structure: DHS-I
Implementing Organization: Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia
Fieldwork: September 1986 - December 1986
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 7152
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 7649
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: Sample Size: 602
Survey Characteristics
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Service availability ‹A survey of communities and the services available in those communities, mostly used in earlier surveys up until about 2006. Not part of the household or individual questionnaires.