NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples aux Comores (EDSC-MICS II) 2012 Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Comoros (COM) Coverage type Country Time period covered 07/2012 - 01/2013 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalGPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The 2012-2013 Comoros Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is part of Phase 6 of the DHS series. The survey covers household characteristics, possession and use of mosquito nets, child labor, domestic violence, knowledge of HIV/AIDS, family planning, employment, and gender roles. The household sample size is 5,000 households. A total of 6,500 women ages 15 to 40 and 3,100 men ages 15 to 59 were included in the sample. Keywords 24HR dietary recall, Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Circumcision, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Dietary sodium, Domestic violence, Edema, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Food industry, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health insurance, Health literacy, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Interpersonal violence, Intimate partner violence, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Length of stay, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Multiple births, Obesity, Obstetric fistulas, Obstructed labor, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Respiratory infections, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Self-treatment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Sexual violence, Siblings, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Vaccination cards, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Zinc, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors General Directorate of Statistics and Forecasting (Comoros) ICF International Funders United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Government of the Union of Comoros Publisher ICF International Suggested citation General Directorate of Statistics and Forecasting (Comoros), ICF International. Comoros Demographic and Health Survey 2012-2013. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 24, 2024