Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey 2012
General Info
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
April, 2012 - May, 2012
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - De facto - De jure - GPS coordinates (GIS) - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary
The Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2012 was conducted as part of Phase 6 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series. For the 2012 Malawi MIS, 2,906 women ages of 15-49 were interviewed from 3,500 households. There were no male respondents. Blood tests for anemia and malaria were done for children ages 6-59 months using a finger prick blood sample.
A total of three questionnaires were used, one for households, one for women, and one for bio-markers.
Keywords
Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Breathing difficulty, Cooking fuels, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Indoor residual spraying, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Jaundice, Land ownership, Languages, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Malaria, Mass media, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, Seizures, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Telephones, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Water supply, Complete birth history
Citation
Funders
Publisher
Suggested citation
ICF International, National Malaria Control Program (Malawi). Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey 2012. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International.