Survey Summary

Ghana: MIS, 2019
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Ghana
Contract Phase: DHS-VIII
Recode Structure: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: Ghana Statistical Service and National Public Health and Reference Laboratory in Accra
Fieldwork: September 2019 - November 2019
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 5799
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 5181
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • Anemia testing
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Health insurance ‹Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • Malaria microscopy
  • Malaria microscopy
  • 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
  • Social & behaviour change communication (SBCC) ‹A set of questions asking women about malaria knowledge, attitudes and exposure to media messages.