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Guyana Demographic and Health Survey 2009

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Guyana (GUY)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/2009 - 07/2009
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

Part of phase 5 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics.  The 2009 Guyana DHS had a sample of about 6,000 households and completed interviews with 4,996 women and 3,522 men, age 15-49.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adverse effects of medical treatments, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Causes of morbidity, Child anthropometry, Circumcision, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Dental care, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Emergency preparedness, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Length of stay, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, MMR vaccines, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal age, Maternal anthropometry, Maternal care, Measles vaccines, Menopause, Menstruation, Micronutrients, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, 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, Rubella vaccines, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Self-treatment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Siblings, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional healers, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines, Zinc
GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 2, 2023