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Malawi Demographic and Health Survey 2000

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General Info
Geography 
Malawi (MWI)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/2000 - 11/2000
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The Malawi Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2000 is part of phase 4 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey series. For the 2000 Malawi DHS, 13,220 women ages 15-49, and 3,092 men ages 15-54 were interviewed from 14,213 households. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adverse effects of medical treatments, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child labor ...  [View more]