Global Health Data Exchange - Discover the World's Health Data

Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Nav

General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
Tabulations only
Geography 
Uganda (UGA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
06/2016 - 11/2016
Series or system 
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2016 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include: child and maternal health, family planning, nutrition, health behavior and knowledge, health care access, health care use, and immunization. For the 2016 Uganda DHS, 18,506 women age 15-49 and 5,336 men age 15-54 were successfully interviewed from 19,588 households. Anthropometry measurements were conducted for all consenting respondents, and blood tests were conducted for the presence of the following:

  • malaria, anemia, and vitamin A deficiency (children ages 6-59 months)
  • anemia (all consenting men and women)
Keywords 
Adult mortality, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antimalarials, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Child anthropometry, Child development, Child health care, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Drug consumption, Education, Ethnicity, Fertility, Fever, Health facilities, Health literacy, Height, Hemoglobin, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Insecticide-treated bednets, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Marital status, Maternal mortality, Mortality, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Place of delivery, Pneumococcal vaccines, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Skilled birth attendants, Summary birth history, Traditional birth control, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vitamin A deficiency, Weight, Zinc
Citation
Contributors 
Uganda Bureau of Statistics
ICF International
Funders 
Government of Uganda
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Suggested citation 
ICF International, Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2016.
GHDx Entry last modified on: Jun 13, 2017