NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Maldives (MDV) Coverage type Country Time period covered 01/2009 - 10/2009 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalDe factoDe jureHouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representative Summary The Maldives Demographic and Health Survey 2009 is part of phase 5 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Aged adults, Alcohol use, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimotility drugs, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood pressure, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child care, Child labor, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Corrective lenses, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Diet, Disability, Disasters, Domestic migration, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Ethnicity, FFQ, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Height, Hepatitis B vaccines, Home care, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Idiopathic intellectual disability, Illicit drug use, Immunization, Income, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Internet, Iron, Iron supplements, Limited mobility, Literacy, Lower respiratory infections, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal health, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mental health symptoms, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Nutrition, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Physical activity, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Population density, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Seizures, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Stroke, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, X-rays, Zinc Citation Contributors ICF Macro Ministry of Health (Maldives) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation ICF Macro, Ministry of Health (Maldives). Maldives Demographic and Health Survey 2009. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 6, 2023