NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Enquête Démographique et de Santé 2008-2009 Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Madagascar (MDG) Coverage type Country Time period covered 11/2008 - 07/2009 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: GPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeVerbal autopsy Summary The Madagascar Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2008-2009 is part of phase 5 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics commonly covered by DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, 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, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Disasters, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal age, Maternal care, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of death, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Poverty, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Summary birth history, Syphilis, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Trichuriasis, Tuberculosis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Verbal autopsy, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Zinc, Stillbirths, Complete sibling history Citation Contributors ICF Macro National Institute of Statistics (Madagascar) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation ICF Macro, National Institute of Statistics (Madagascar). Madagascar Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 11, 2024