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Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2023-2024

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
LDHS 2023-2024
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Lesotho (LSO)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
11/2023 - 02/2024
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
DHS Related Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2023-2024 is part of phase 8 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a nationally representative household survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include: child and maternal health, family planning, nutrition, health behaviors, health care access, health care use, and immunization. For the 2014 Lesotho DHS, 6,413 women age 15-49 and 3,215 men age 15-59 were successfully interviewed from 9,810 households. Blood tests were conducted for the presence of anemia and HIV infection in men and women, and for anemia in children age 6-59 months from a subsample of households.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antihypertensive drugs, Antimotility drugs, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child health care ...  [View more]
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 19, 2025