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Brazil Demographic and Health Survey 1991

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Pesquisa sobre Saúde Familiar no Nordeste Brasil 1991
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Brazil (BRA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
08/1991 - 12/1991
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
Summary 

Part of phase 2 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Clinical breast exams, Complete birth history, Contraceptives, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Education, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health literacy, Health status, Height, Hospitals, Household water treatment, Housing materials, Immunization, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Multiple births, Oral rehydration therapy, Physical examinations, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Syphilis, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichomoniasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022