Survey Summary

Ghana: MIS, 2016
Other Dissemination Materials
MIS Final Reports
Malaria Fact Sheets
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Ghana
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: The Ghana Statistical Services
Fieldwork: October 2016 - December 2016
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 5841
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 5150
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
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • 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.
  • 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