Survey Summary

Sierra Leone: Standard DHS, 2019
DHS Final Reports
Other Dissemination Materials
Survey Presentations
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Data Available
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Sierra Leone
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Recode Structure: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: Statistics Sierra Leone
Fieldwork: May 2019 - August 2019
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 13399
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 15574
Male: All Men
Age: 15 to 59
Sample Size: 7197
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anemia testing
  • Anthropometry
  • 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.
  • Female genital cutting ‹A set of questions asking women about their experience of female genital cutting, also known as female circumcision or female genital mutilation. Questions are also asked about the woman's daughters age 14 and younger.
  • 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.
  • GPS/georeferenced ‹Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.
  • HIV testing
  • HIV testing - DBS
  • HIV testing - RDT
  • 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.
  • Men's survey ‹Surveys that include men in addition to women as individual respondents.