Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey 2015
General Info
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
September, 2015 - October, 2015
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary
The Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2015 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. The survey was designed to provide information on the knowledge and practice of malaria prevention in Nigeria. Topics covered also include birth history, child mortality, and demographic characteristics. For the 2015 Nigeria MIS, 8,034 women ages 15-49 from 7,745 households were successfully interviewed. Blood smear parasitemia and finger prick blood tests were conducted for the presence of anemia and malaria in children ages 6-59 months.
Keywords
Adult mortality, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Breathing difficulty, Child health care, Child mortality, Children, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Fever, Health care access, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Indoor residual spraying, Infant mortality, Insecticide-treated bednets, Jaundice, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Malaria, Mass media, Mortality, Multiple births, Nonprofits, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Pregnancy, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Skilled birth attendants, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Telephones, Transportation, Water supply, Complete birth history
Citation
Contributors
Funders
Publisher
Publication year
2016
Suggested citation
ICF International, National Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria), National Malaria Control Programme (Nigeria), National Population Commission of Nigeria. Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey 2015. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International, 2016.