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Malawi National Malaria Indicator Survey 2010

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General Info
Provider 
Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Tabulations only
Geography 
Malawi (MWI)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/2010 - 04/2010
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • De facto
  • De jure
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Malawi National Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2010 is the first MIS conducted in Malawi. The key objectives were to assess malaria prevalence in children under 5, anemia status in children 6-59 months, disparities in malaria intervention coverage, and parasite and anemia prevalence by location and other characteristics. The sample included 140 enumeration areas with 96 rural areas and 44 urban areas. For the 2010 MIS, 2,891 women ages 15-49 were interviewed from 3,478 households. Additionally, biomarker data were collected for 2,523 children under 5.

Keywords 
Absenteeism, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Complete birth history, Cooking fuels, Crops, Education, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Fever, Health care use, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Income, Indoor residual spraying, Insecticide-treated bednets, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Malaria, Mass media, Medicines, Occupations, Personal health expenditures, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, Summary birth history, Telephones, Transportation, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 15, 2021