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Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 1998

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
Microdata access: Request
Geography 
Kenya (KEN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
02/1998 - 07/1998
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 1998 is part of phase 3 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. GPS coordinates were collected during the survey, but the files were not released.

The North-Eastern province of Kenya and the northern districts of Samburu and Turkana in Rift Valley Province and Isiolo and Marsabit in Eastern Province were not included in this survey. However, the excluded areas account for less than 4% of the national population.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Education, Education access, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Health promotion, Height, Hookworm disease, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Income, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal conditions, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Place of death, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Religion, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vomiting, Water supply, Weight, Weight change, Complete sibling history
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 19, 2025