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Guinea Demographic and Health Survey 2012

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Original or alternative title 
Guinée Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples (EDS-MICS-IV) 2012
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Guinea (GIN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/2012 - 10/2012
Series or system 
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • De facto
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The 2012 Guinea DHS is a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. It covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. A sample of 7,200 households was selected nationwide. Two-stage stratified sampling was used.

All women ages 15-49 within the household were eligible for enumeration. In a subsample of households, men ages 15-59 were enumerated. Within this subsample, all men and women were eligible for HIV testing. In addition, all men, women and children ages 6-59 months were eligible for anemia testing; all children under age five were eligible for malaria testing; and anthropometry was done for children under age five and women.

Three questionnaires were used including one for households, women, and men. The questionnaires were based off of materials developed by the Measure DHS program, and certain modules were added from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS).

Keywords 
Abortion, Absenteeism, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child anthropometry, Child health care, Child labor, Child mortality, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Dentists, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female Infertility, Female circumcision, Fertility, Fever, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health education, Health literacy, Health promotion, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Jaundice, Land ownership, Lighting, Limited birth history, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal hemorrhage, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Military service, Mining, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Nurses, Obstetric fistulas, Obstructed labor, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Pharmacies, Physicians, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sibling survival, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Syphilis, Teachers, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vaccination cards, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines, Zinc, Household water treatment
Citation
Contributors 
ICF Macro
National Institute of Statistics (Guinea)
Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene (Guinea)
Funders 
USAID
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
World Bank
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Government of Guinea
Publisher 
ICF Macro
Publication year 
2014
Suggested citation 
ICF Macro, Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene (Guinea), National Institute of Statistics (Guinea). Guinea Demographic and Health Survey 2012. Calverton, United States: ICF Macro, 2014.
GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 13, 2017