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Qatar Family Health Survey 1998

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
QFHS-98
Geography 
Qatar (QAT)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/1998 - 05/1998
Series or system 
Gulf Family Health Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The survey is part of the Global Family Health Survey (GFHS), a research program executed by the Council of Health Ministers of the GCC States. The sample of 4,774 Qatari citizen households is based on the 1997 census. The survey instrument consists of four questionnaires: household health status, household environmental conditions, reproductive health, and child health.  The first two questionnaires were successfully administered to 4,207 households. The reproductive health questionnaire was answered by 3,787 ever-married women under 50 years of age, while the child health questionnaire gathered information on 3,775 children under five years of age. The report and tabulations may be available through the library system.

Keywords 
Abortion, Allergies, Anemia, Antibiotics, Assets, Asthma, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Burns, Caesarean section, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child health care, Child mortality, Children, Chronic kidney diseases, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congenital anomalies, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Corrective lenses, Cough, DTP vaccines, Dental care, Diabetes, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Dietary supplements, Digestive diseases, Disability, Domestic violence, Education, Electricity, Employment, Falls, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Fertility, Fever, Headache, Health care access, Health care services, Health care use, Health literacy, Health status, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Heart disease, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hospitals, Household deaths, Housing, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injuries, Insulin, Iron supplements, Literacy, Live births, Living conditions, MMR vaccines, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal age, Maternal care, Maternal conditions, Maternal hemorrhage, Maternal morbidity, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Mental and behavioral disorders, Micronutrient supplements, Mortality, Multiple births, Noncommunicable diseases, Oral rehydration therapy, Otitis media, Pharmacies, Poisonings, Polio vaccines, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Preterm birth, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Reproductive health, Respiratory infections, Road traffic injuries, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Stillbirths, Stroke, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Urinary tract infections, Vaccination cards, Vision loss, Waste disposal, Water supply, Summary birth history, Abortive outcome
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022