NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Uganda (UGA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 04/2006 - 10/2006 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalDe factoGPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representativeVerbal autopsy Summary The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006 is part of phase 5 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics. A sub sample of participants from the 2006 Uganda DHS were interviewed for the 2007 Uganda Child Verbal Autopsy Study (UCVAS). Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Aplastic and other non-nutritional anemias, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child labor, Child mortality, Childhood sexual violence, Circumcision, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Corrective lenses, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Disability, Domestic violence, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Fishing, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Hemoglobin, Hemolytic anemias, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Intimate partner violence, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Languages, Length of stay, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal age, Maternal anthropometry, Maternal conditions, Maternal mortality, Measles, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Nutrition, Obstetric fistulas, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Prevalence, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Siblings, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vaccination cards, Verbal autopsy, Violence, Vision loss, Vitamin A deficiency, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors Uganda Bureau of Statistics Macro International, Inc Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Department for International Development (DFiD) (United Kingdom) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Government of Japan Government of Uganda Health Partnership Fund (HPF) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Macro International, Inc, Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 11, 2024