Guinea Demographic and Health Survey 2018
General Info
Original or alternative title
Enquête Démographique et de Santé en Guinée (EDSG V) 2018
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
March, 2018 - June, 2018
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative
Summary
The Guinea Demographic and Health Survey 2018 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a nationally representative household survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include child and maternal health, family planning, nutrition, health behaviors and knowledge, health care access, and child immunization.
Keywords
Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Assets, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child health care, Children, Circumcision, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Dairy products, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Domestic migration, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fever, Gestational age, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Height, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Hypertension, IUDs, Immunization, Infant care, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, International migration, Internet, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Length of stay, Lifestyle risk factors, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal health, Measles vaccines, Menstruation, Micronutrient supplements, Milk, Multiple births, Obstetric fistulas, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Outpatient facilities, PMTCT, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Respiratory infections, Sanitation, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Smokeless tobacco use, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, VCT, Vaccination cards, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines, Zinc
Citation
Contributors
Funders
Publisher
Publication year
2019
Suggested citation
Ministry of Health (Guinea), Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (Guinea), National Institute of Statistics (Guinea). Guinea Demographic and Health Survey 2018. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International, 2019.