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Jordan Interim Demographic and Health Survey 2009

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Jordan Population and Family Health Interim Survey 2009
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Jordan (JOR)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
10/2009 - 12/2009
Series or system 
Interim Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

Part of phase 6 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey.

The survey was administered to 13,577 households and 10,109 ever-married women ages 15-49 living in the households. Those living in remote areas and institutions were excluded from the sample frame.

Participating women and their children age 5 and younger underwent anthropomorphic measuring and blood tests to detect anemia.

Keywords 
Abortion, Age at first sex, Anemia, Anthropometry, Ascariasis, Assets, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Diaphragms, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female Infertility, Fertility, Health care access, Health literacy, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, International migration, Internet, Limited birth history, Literacy, Live births, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Menstruation, Morbidity, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Occupations, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tobacco use, Traditional birth control, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Water supply, Weight
Citation
Contributors 
ICF Macro
Department of Statistics (Jordan)
Funders 
USAID
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Publisher 
ICF Macro
Publication year 
2010
Suggested citation 
Department of Statistics (Jordan), ICF Macro. Jordan Interim Demographic and Health Survey 2009. Calverton, United States: ICF Macro, 2010.
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