Demographic and Health Surveys

Alternate Titles(s): DHS
UID: 10110
Description
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program uses nationally representative surveys, biomarker testing, and geographic location to collect data on monitoring and impact evaluation indicators for individual countries and for cross-country comparisons. There are several survey types used, including Demographic and Health Survey, Service Provision Assessment, HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey, Malaria Indicator Survey, and Key Indicators Survey. Data is available on over eighty countries.
Publisher
Subject Domain
Population Age
Child (2 years - 12 years)
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Adult (19 years - 64 years)
Aged (80 years and over)
Newborn (under 1 month)
Infant (1 month - 23 months)
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Access

Restrictions
Free to all with registration
Instructions
Registration is required to request dataset access . Each request needs to include a project title and a description of the analysis you propose to perform on the data, and the requested data should only be used for the purpose of the described project. Review of requests generally takes 24 hours during the work week. GPS, HIV, and biomarker datasets require additional forms and authorization. All datasets are distributed as compressed ZIP files. Data Tools and Manuals are also available to assist with using the data.
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Data, Methodology, and Online Tools

Data Type
Study Type
Observational
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, ASCII, CSPro
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