Survey Summary

Philippines: Standard DHS, 2017
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Philippines
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
Fieldwork: August 2017 - October 2017
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 27496
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 25074
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Alcohol consumption ‹Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • Domestic violence ‹A set of questions on lifetime experience of domestic violence. Typically asked of women only but in some surveys asked of men.
  • Fieldworker characteristics ‹A set of questions asking about the characteristics of all fieldworkers and included in a separate dataset. These data can be merged with survey responses to explore interviewer effects.
  • Health expenditures ‹Questions asking about the cost of healthcare services and/or healthcare items usually at the individual level. Can be asked of women and/or men. See also the out-of-pocket expenditures module which is asked at the household level.
  • Health insurance ‹Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Migration ‹Questions asking individuals about their prior residences if they have moved since birth. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Out-of-pocket health expenditures ‹A set of questions asking the household respondent about health expenditures for all usual household members who had inpatient care in the past 6 months and 1 randomly selected usual household member who had outpatient care in the past 4 weeks.
  • Pregnancy history ‹A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births.
  • Prenatal care - folic acid ‹Questions asking women if they took folic acid supplements during the pregnancy for her last live birth.