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DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)

Series type 
Multinational survey family
Geography 
Time period 
1984 - present

Started in 1984, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series is one of the longest running and largest survey families.  It was preceded by the World Fertility Survey series and the Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys.  Since its inception, the DHS has been largely funded by USAID, and since the late 80s, executed under the direction of Macro -- after Macro purchased the Institute for Resource Development (IRD) from Westinghouse.  Macro has undergone various transformations (Macro Systems, Macro International, ORC Macro) and was briefly known as ICF Macro after ICF acquired Macro in 2009. The organization became ICF International in 2011.

Currently DHS data and reports are available from the Demographic and Health Surveys Program website: http://dhsprogram.com/

The site lists past and ongoing surveys and has tools for exploring DHS data.  It generally offers data in Stata, SPSS, SAS and flat-file formats.

The DHS cover maternal and child health, nutrition and mortality topics.  Each survey may include additional modules or country-specific questions that can cover a wide array of topics including wealth, occupation, housing conditions, exposure to mass media, attitudes toward contraception and reproductive health-related issues, AIDS, and malaria.  The MEASURE DHS program also includes the Special and In Depth DHS, as well as the AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS), Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS) and the Service Provision Assessments (SPA), a facility survey series.

Generally DHS are conducted in countries that do not have the resources to conduct comprehensive surveys of this type on their own, and countries that have had DHS in the past ”graduate” from the program as they develop the capacity to conduct these kinds of surveys themselves. For that reason and because of the high standard set by the DHS, there are many surveys similar to the DHS that are not actually part of the series.

The list below shows DHS that are part of the standard DHS series.

DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Dataset Records

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Mali Demographic and Health Survey 2006

Enquête Démographique et de Santé (EDSM-IV) 2006
Survey: GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative

Benin Demographic and Health Survey 2006

Enquête Démographique et de Santé 2006
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative

Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006

Survey: Cross-sectional - De facto - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative - Verbal autopsy

Haiti Demographic and Health Survey 2005-2006

Enquête Mortalité, Morbidité et Utilisation des Services Haïti 2005-2006
Survey: GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative

Niger Demographic and Health Survey 2006

Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples 2006
Survey: GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative

Cape Verde Demographic and Health Survey 2005

Cabo Verde Inquérito Demográfico e de Saúde Reprodutiva (IDSR-II) 2005
Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Congo Demographic and Health Survey 2005

Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Congo 2005
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey 2005

Enquêtes Démographiques et de Santé Rwanda (EDSR) 2005
Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative

Egypt Demographic and Health Survey 2005

Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Colombia Demographic and Health Survey 2004-2005

Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud 2005
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Senegal Demographic and Health Survey 2005

Enquête Démographique et de Santé Sénégal 2005
Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey 2004

Enquête Démographique et de Santé Cameroun 2004
Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative

Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2004

Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative - Verbal autopsy

Madagascar Demographic and Health Survey 2003-2004

Enquête Démographique et de Santé 2003-2004
Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2003

Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative

Jordan Demographic and Health Survey 2002

Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2002
Survey: Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative

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