Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey 2014
General Info
Original or alternative title
MMIS 2014
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
May, 2014 - June, 2014
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary
The Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2014 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. The survey provides information on the knowledge and practice of malaria prevention in Malawi. For the 2014 Malawi MIS, 2,897 women ages 15-49 from 3,405 households were successfully interviewed. Additionally, blood smear parasitemia and finger prick blood tests were conducted for the presence of anemia, and malaria in children under 5.
Keywords
Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Child health care, Children, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, DOTs, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health literacy, Health status, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Indoor residual spraying, Insecticide-treated bednets, Jaundice, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Malaria, Mass media, Medicines, Mortality, Multiple births, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Skilled birth attendants, Summary birth history, Telephones, Transportation, Water supply, Complete birth history
Citation
Contributors
Funders
Publisher
Publication year
2015
Suggested citation
ICF International, Ministry of Health (Malawi), National Malaria Control Program (Malawi), National Statistical Office of Malawi. Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey 2014. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International, 2015.