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Sri Lanka Demographic and Health Survey 1993

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General Info
Provider 
Department of Census and Statistics (Sri Lanka)
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Geography 
Sri Lanka (LKA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/1993 - 09/1993
Series or system 
Sri Lanka Demographic and Health Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
Summary 

The 1993 Sri Lanka DHS is not part of the DHS series funded in large part by USAID, but was based on the DHS core questionnaire. This survey was conducted by the Sri Lanka Department of Census and Statistics (DCS). The survey covered socioeconomic backgrounds, fertility, contraception, child health, marriage, and child anthropometry.

The sample was a multistage stratified probability sample that excluded the Northern and Eastern provinces. A total of 9,230 households were included in the sample, which included 7,078 ever-married women ages 15-49.

The first comprehensive survey on family planning and fertility in Sri Lanka was carried out in 1975 by the DCS. Similar surveys were also conducted in 1982, 1985, and 1987.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Agriculture, Antenatal care, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child care, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Fertility, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Hookworm disease, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Injectable contraceptives, Literacy, Live births, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Sanitation, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Teachers, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Vaccination cards, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022