Dataset

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)

Water Supply and Management, Sanitation, Food Security / Sustainability, Hygiene, Nutrition and LifestyleGlobalUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID), The DHS Program

Dataset Objective

To deepen and transform our understanding of population, health and nutrition issues in the developing world.

Context

Datasets dating from 1986 to the present are available for 93 countries in which data were collect through Household questionnaires, Women's questionnaires, Men's questionnaires, Biomarker's questionnaires, and Fieldworker's questionnaires. The following data types are produced from the collected data : Household Recode, Household Member Recode, Individual Women's Recode, Births Recode, Children's Recode, Men's Recode, Couple's Recode, Geographic Data, Geospatial Covariates.

What is included

HTML tables with summaries on households' responses regarding membership, individual women, child births, geospatial covariates, child mortality, water and sanitation, abortion, health insurance.

Collection Methods

Data were collect through Household questionnaires, Women's questionnaires, Men's questionnaires, Biomarker's questionnaires, and Fieldworker's questionnaires.